The Houston Museum of Natural Science- one of the nation's most-heavily attended museums-is a centerpiece of the Houston Museum District. With four floors of permanent exhibit halls, including the Wortham IMAX® Theatre, Cockrell Butterfly Center, Burke Baker Planetarium and George Observatory and as host to world-class and ever-changing touring exhibitions, the Houston Museum has something to delight every age group. With such diverse and extraordinary offerings, a trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, located at One Hermann Circle Drive in the heart of the Museum District, is always an adventure.
With 3,171,690 in paid ticket sales from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2006, the Houston Museum of Natural Science has one of the highest attendance of any museum in the United States, following only the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the
American Museum of Natural History. This attendance represents one-and-a-half times the number of people living in the city of Houston. The museum has been within the top five most-attended museums in the United States for more than a decade.
(1) Contemporary Arts Museum, (2) Museum of Fine Arts, (3) Museum of Natual Science, (4) Health Museum, (5) Miller Outdoor Theatre
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