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 | | Description: The 24th Annual Labor Day Classic marks the 63 year tradition of rivalry between two legendary Houston area universities. Congratulations are in order to all parties involved for continuing an event that celebrates Texas heritage in sports competition. | |
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 | | Description: Celebrate Labor Day in Houston: Find local events, activities and the best outdoor restaurants and bars. | |
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| | Description: Houstonians have no shortage of activities this Labor Day weekend, as Downtown Aquarium offers a variety of kid-friendly events for the whole family to enjoy. The schedule is chock-full of festivities from LIVE Latin music and salsa dancing to a reggae festival and limbo contest. | |
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 | | Description: Links to all 18 museums in the Houston Museum District. | |
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 | | Description: 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. | |
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 | | Description: African Americans have served proudly in every great American war. In 1866, through an act of Congress, legislation was adopted to create six all African American Army units. The units were identified as the 9th and 10th cavalry and the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st infantry regiments.
The four infantry regiments were later reorganized to form the 24th and 25th infantry regiments. These fighting men represented the first Black professional soldiers in a peacetime army. The recruits came from vari | |
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 | | Description: The Museum of Printing History displays a dynamic collection of historical documents, fine art prints, and antique printing equipment. Our Museum is more, though, than its permanent collection. It is alive with exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations. In our galleries and working studios, we demonstrate the traditional processes of stone lithography, letterpress printing, papermaking, and bookbinding.
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 | | Description: The Health Museum, also known as The John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, is Houston's most interactive science learning center and a member institution of the world-renowned Texas Medical Center. Located in the heart of the city's rich and varied Museum District, The Health Museum encourages growing interest and regard for healthier lifestyles, fitness and good physical, mental and spiritual health. | |
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 | | Description: The Heritage Society was founded in 1954 by renowned Houstonians Faith Bybee, Harvin Moore and Marie Phelps in order to save the 1847 Kellum-Noble House from demolition. They had one goal in mind: preserve the hastily disappearing past of this great city for the education of future generations. | |
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 | | Description: The Menil Collection is a unique museum environment located in the Montrose-area Museum District housing the collection of John and Dominique de Menil. The museum building is the centerpiece of a neighborhood featuring satellite gallery spaces and related cultural institutions set in a parklike setting. | |
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 | | Description: Explore the far reaches of outer space, roam with the dinosaurs, wander through Africa's Serengeti, and marvel at the world's rarest and most beautiful minerals. Discover all this and much more at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, one of the nation's most heavily attended museums. | |
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 | | Description: Located in the heart of Texas’s largest city, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a dynamic cultural complex consisting of two museum buildings, two art schools, two decorative arts centers, and a sculpture garden.
With its encyclopedic collection and an exciting schedule of international loan exhibitions and award-winning programs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of the premier destinations in the United States for art lovers. | |
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 | | Description: Rated as the No. 1 children's museum in the country by a MSN.com survey of youth museums and serving more than 750,000 people annually, the Children's Museum of Houston is the highest-attended youth museum in the country for its size and is dedicated to its mission of transforming communities through innovative, child-centered learning. The Museum offers 14 galleries of hands-on exhibits and innovative outreach programming for kids ages birth to 12 years.
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 | | Description: Intimate in scale (4,000 square feet), the Chapel Museum is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the western hemisphere. These masterworks from the 13th century -- a dome and an apse -- were ripped and stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish occupied section of Cyprus in the 1980's, cut into pieces and smuggled off the island by thieves prepared to sell them piece by piece.
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 | | Description: The Rothko Chapel functions as a chapel, a museum and a forum. It is a place where religion, art and architecture intermingle. It has become a pilgrimage stop for thousands of visitors who are drawn by its importance both as an artistic masterpiece and as an ecumenical gathering place for people of all religious beliefs. | |
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 | | Description: Rice Gallery is the only university museum in the United States devoted to site-specific installation art. Five times a year, Rice Gallery invites contemporary artists to create new installations on-site.
Rice Gallery funds the artist’s creative process from start to finish, and installations here can become a turning point in an artist’s career. Young artists have the opportunity to expand their processes into well-developed, large-scale works, while mid-career and established artists can “ | |
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 | | Description: With four galleries in its locally significant Art Deco building, Lawndale includes close to 500 artists annually in changing exhibitions, and features innovative contemporary art work by area artists that often would not be shown in commercial or other museum venues due to its scale, ephemeral nature, or difficulty of installation.
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 | | Description: The Jung Educational Center offers more than 100 classes each year in the fields of psychology, philosophy, the humanities, religion and the expressive arts. | |
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 | | Description: Founded and operated by meteorologists, the Weather Museum is a project of Weather Research Center, a Houston, Texas based non-profit educational and research organization, whose goal is to reach as many people as possible and educate them about weather and weather safety as well as make them weatherwise. | |
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 | | Description: HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture. | |
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 | | Description: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit visual arts organization dedicated to advancing education about the process, product and history of craft. The Center focuses on objects made primarily of clay, fiber, glass, metal and wood. HCCC provides exhibition, retail and studio spaces to support the work of local and national artists and serves as a resource for artists, educators and the community at large. | |
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 | | Description: Czech Center Museum Houston is a non-profit educational, cultural arts organization located in the Museum District. The Center’s mission is to preserve, record, and celebrate the language, scholarship and arts of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia. | |
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 | | Description: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is an idea and a place shaped by the present moment. The Museum exemplifies the dynamic relationship between contemporary art and contemporary society through its exhibitions, public and educational programs, and publications. The CAMH provides the physical and intellectual framework essential to the presentation, interpretation, and advancement of contemporary art; it is a vibrant forum for artists and all audiences, and for critical, scholarly, and public d | |
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 | | Description: The Houston Zoo provides a fun, unique, and inspirational experience fostering appreciation, knowledge, and care for the natural world. | |
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