Beyond Bones

                When we work in the Cockrell Butterfly Center, we often talk to guests from many different countries around the world, but most of the time there is no way for us to know just how far our patrons have come. Recently we got a glimpse into the travels of our patrons in […]

It’s your lucky day! Mixers & Elixirs is kicking off with our first St. Patrick’s Day Mixer. Follow the rainbow to HMNS and shamrock and roll this St. Patrick’s Day at the smartest social scene in town. Doors open at 8 p.m. for the live band, dancing, cash bars and the city’s best food trucks. […]

Excursion – Travel Night – Norwegian Voyage: Vikings and Northern Lights Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: Author: Kristian Pikner   ***Note: No cost to attend the information meeting regarding the March 2018 trip.***   EXCURSION  TRAVEL NIGHT – NORWEGIAN VOYAGE: VIKINGS AND NORTHERN LIGHTS   Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m.   Join us on March […]

The Houston Museum of Natural Science will be serving as mission control on Saturday, March 4th for an out-of-this-world Gala: The Big Bang Ball. Make a big impact by bidding in our first-ever online Gala Auction! Explore our unique auction items, including dino-mite fossils, dazzling gemstones as well as once in a lifetime museum experiences […]

By Elizabeth Galante, Content Manager and Data Analyst, Youth Education Sales   Thanks to a sponsorship from Google, the Houston Museum of Natural Science was able to close the Museum to the public and invite 2,082 Houston-area students, teachers, and chaperones to a free evening field trip on January 20, 2017. Google’s generous support provided […]

Venus leaves the evening sky this month. (In fact, it is coming around to our side of the Sun, about to overtake the Earth.) Look in the west in evening twilight. Venus is noticeably lower to the horizon each evening, until is lost in the Sun’s glare after Spring Break. How long can you still […]

We’ve all heard of the notorious classified ads. Whether you think the stories emanating from those newspaper columns are romantic or creepy, it can’t be denied that they are interesting to hear about. Here at HMNS we have missed connections everywhere. But I don’t mean human connections, or a least living human connections…   The connections that […]

Hear Dr. Erin Vogel at the HMNS (Rebloged from the Leakey Foundation)   Who doesn’t love orangutans? These highly intelligent, critically endangered great apes that live in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo have faces with such character, such personality, they always make for great, powerful pictures. We are always excited when The Leakey […]

Film Screening – Bridge On the River Kwai with Captain Jay Thomas       Join Captain Jay Thomas, US Naval History and Heritage Command for a one-night-only screening of this classic 1957 film.   Among the forced laborers who built the bridge over the River Kwai were American and Australian sailors who survived the […]

    Bridge over the River Kwai, 1943. Artist: Rawlings, Leo. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Following the successful surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial forces launched a series of campaigns to expand their influence and grab strategic points across China and the islands of the Pacific.   In early 1942 the Imperial forces […]