Best places: Museums in Houston, United States

Home of the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, with vintage aircraft & rides on war planes.

Hundreds of butterflies in a walk-through rainforest habitat, plus insect displays in Brown Hall.

Museum with dinosaur hall & other permanent exhibits, planetarium, IMAX theater & butterfly house.

👍 A must see if visiting Houston. Large exhibits with a lot to see. I wish we would have visited during the week because it was very busy and there was a lot of children running around. The food court was healthy. I really enjoyed my visit but missed a lot because of the crowd.

This somber museum documents the Holocaust through exhibits of artifacts, photographs & film.

Research center dedicated to African-American soldiers with exhibits, workshops & reenactments.

Educational center highlighting all eras of U.S. space travel via exhibits, tours & attractions.

👍👍 Wonderful art museum, great buildings.. beautiful new lights and exhibits to view. And love the outside sculpture garden!

Spacious art deco museum featuring memorabilia, aircrafts & uniforms from aviation history.

👍👍 The Google Maps has this place on the other side of the street, but this place is very easy to find due to the immense scale of the buildings. It says Houston Texas on one side. Great street art for a quick photo and to spark some innovative/creative mind. “Find what you love and let it kill you”...

👍👍 This was fun experience and a great date night!! We had 17 rooms to go through and there was so many different things you could do in each room. There are props and great lighting. They also offer you a ring light and a shutter button to connect to your phone. It made it easier to take pictures. It...

👍 This museum was just opened recently in September 2023. It has a lot of very interesting exhibits of very famous optical illusions. It's highly attractive, and many of them were well designed. But the whole place is not very big, and you can go through pretty much everything in less than an hour.

👍👍 I went with friends to see the Monarch Chamber Music production. The Czech Museum is a very elegant venue. The Museum had free Danish, and you could purchase wine, soft drinks, and water. There were small tables and chairs, plus tall bar tables. The museum was available for viewing, and there was a...

Quirky art space filled with immersive, colorful installations, featuring a ball pit & balloons.

Opened in 1986, this sculpture garden has works by Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin & Pablo Picasso.

Museum of elaborately decorated cars & contemporary art with a scrap-metal & chrome exterior.

Converted 1950s mansion is now an art gallery featuring 17th- to 19th-century antiques & home decor.

Historic octagonal brick building with massive abstract murals by Mark Rothko & outdoor sculptures.

Modern craftwork is on display at this unique gallery with resident artists, a garden & gift shop.

Guided tours are given at this folk art house built from 1968–1988 using 50,000+ recycled beer cans.