Saturday is Museum District Day
Saturday is free-museum-day in Houston (take your radio Walkman so you don't miss the Astros):
Want to spend the entire day exploring museums? Saturday is Museum District Day in Houston, and the following museums will be open to the public — for free.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 1834 Southmore, (713) 942-8920, www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com.
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum educates the public about the contributions of African-American soldiers toward the development and protection of the United States. The museum charts their accomplishments through more than 4,000 historical artifacts, documents, videos and prints.
Guided tours will be available. Performances about the life of Gen. Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad will take place every hour from noon to 5 p.m.
• The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, 4011 Yupon, (713) 521-3990, www.menil.org/byzantine.html.
The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum is the repository for the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the western hemisphere. These masterworks from the 13th century were stolen out of a chapel in Cyprus, cut into pieces and smuggled off the island by thieves. The Menil Foundation rescued the fragments and restored them.
• The Children’s Museum of Houston, 1500 Binz, (713) 522-1138, www.cmhouston.org.
Hands-on exhibits and activities offer young visitors and their families educational activities. Kids can turn their movements into sound and get inside a giant music box.
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose, (713) 284-8250, www.camh.org.
Artist Andrea Zittel blends art, design and architecture in “Andrea Zittel: Critical Space.” “Perspectives 148: Su-en Wong” presents paintings depicting a likeness of the artist in humorous costumes and settings.
• Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline, (713) 942-8000, www.hmh.org.
“Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers,” features documents, artifacts, film reels and photographs from the Holocaust era, interspersed with personal stories from survivors and liberators. Special exhibitions include photographs documenting Jewish life before World War II. Families can also create handmade butterflies for a project to remember the children who perished during the Holocaust.
• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), 4848 Main St., (713) 529-4848, www.crafthouston.org.
Potters, blacksmiths, weavers and metal artists will make objects and answer visitors’ questions.
• Houston Center for Photography, 1441 W. Alabama, (713) 529-4755, www.hcponline.org.
The Houston Center for Photography presents the work of emerging artists Victoria Crayhon, Nate Larson and Juan Miguel Ramos.
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, One Hermann Circle Drive, (713) 639-4629, www.hmns.org.
The museum’s exhibits include dinosaurs, African wildlife, the world’s largest snail and a Mayan temple. (Paid tickets required for the Wortham IMAX Theatre, Cockrell Butterfly Center and Burke Baker Planetarium).
• John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, 1515 Hermann Drive, (713) 521-1515, www.museumofhealth.org.
Besides live science presentations and dissection demonstrations, the museum features a walking tour through the human body.
• The Jung Center, 5200 Montrose, (713) 524-8253, www.cgjunghouston.org.
The museum presents an exhibit of quilts, collage, weaving and sculptural forms. Artist Suzan Kraus will teach visitors how to make corsages in 20 minutes. Sessions start at 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. At 2 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., Dr. Herb Agan — a Jungian analyst — will discuss the film “The Lion King.”
• Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main St., (713) 528-5858, www.lawndaleartcenter.org.
“Still Crazy” celebrates Lawndale’s 25 years of artistic history, from its conception as a University of Houston studio space to its role today as an alternative art space.
• The Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross, (713) 525-9400, www.menil.org.
The Menil Collection presents the percussive rhythms of Divine Rhythm United Motion. The museum’s permanent collection includes Surrealism master works, as well as Oceanic and African art.
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, (713) 639-7300, www.mfah.org.
The museum houses a collection of more than 51,000 works of art from around the world.
• Rice University Art Gallery, 6100 Main St., Campus Entrance 1, Ground floor of Sewall Hall (713) 348-6069, www.ricegallery.org.
Diane Landry’s ordinary umbrellas appear to come to life in a garden of color and light in “Flying School.” In “Mandala Naya,” she uses only a moving light, laundry basket and plastic bottles.
• The Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross, (713) 524-9839, www.rothkochapel.org.
The Rothko Chapel displays 14 paintings by Mark Rothko, which were commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil.
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