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Things To Do
Houston Zoo
The Houston Zoo provides a fun and unique experience that connects communities with animals to inspire action to save wildlife. Where else can you see African lions, Asian elephants, and California sea lions...all without leaving the city of Houston? Each year, 2.4 million guests take part in the wonder and magnificence of creatures big and small from all over the globe and learn ways in which they can help save animals in the wild.
Hermann Park
Hermann Park, presented to the City of Houston by George Hermann in 1914, is Houston's most historically significant public green space. Hermann Park has a bountiful assortment of entertainment: McGovern Centennial Gardens, J.M. Stroud Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, pedal boat rentals, a railroad train, and many other points of interest.
Houston Museum of Natural Science
As one of the most heavily attended museums in the United States, HMNS at Hermann Park has five floors of permanent exhibits, spanning astronomy, space science, indigenous peoples' culture, paleontology, energy, chemistry, geology, seashells and Texas wildlife, alongside a slew of rotating special exhibitions. HMNS also houses three other venues: the Burke Baker Planetarium, Wortham Giant Screen Theatre and Cockrell Butterfly Center.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is among the 10 largest art museums in the United States. Established in 1900, its collection numbers nearly 70,000 works and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.
Asia Society Texas Center
Asia Society Texas Center opened a new 40,000-square-foot center in 2012, located in Houston's Museum District and designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi — best known in the U.S. for his renovation and expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Asia Society Texas Center celebrates the vibrant cultures and diverse perspectives of Asians and Asian Americans through innovative programs in arts and culture, business and policy, and education.
Holocaust Museum Houston
As the nation's fourth largest Holocaust museum and fully bilingual in English and Spanish, the newly renovated three-story structure houses a welcome center, four permanent galleries and two changing exhibition galleries, classrooms, research library, café, 187-seat indoor theater and 175-seat outdoor amphitheater. Charged with educating students and the public about the dangers of prejudice and hatred in society, Holocaust Museum Houston opened its doors in March of 1996. Since that time, impassioned notes, poems, artwork, and other gifts, from school children and adults alike, attest to the life-changing thoughts generated by just one visit to this unique facility.
Rice University
Rice University, the location of our wedding venue Cohen House, is a private institution with incredible architecture, artifacts, and history. The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy features an original section of the Berlin Wall, US Presidential memorabilia, and more.