Beyond Bones

Spirits and Skeletons!   October 29, 2016 | 8 p.m. – midnight   Sponsored by Audi Central Houston Calling all ghosts and ghouls, monsters and mummies, witches and werewolves: Houston’s favorite Halloween party — the one and only Spirits & Skeletons — is back at HMNS! With the entire Museum open you can shake your […]

Frankenweenie (2012) GET TICKETS   Friday, October 14 | 7:15 p.m. | Members: $4 | Tickets: $5   Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.     BTS – Mummies of the World: The Exhibition October 18, 2016 at  6:00pm […]

By Scott Solomon   “It is not what man has been, but what he will be, that should interest us” – H. G. Wells On this day 150 years ago in Bromley, England, a child was born to a family of modest shopkeepers. Known to his family as Bertie, he broke his leg at the […]

I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s reading books about the dinosaur “orthodoxy.” According to this traditional view, the dinos died out at the end of the Cretaceous because their beloved swamps dried up and the air became too cool. But the new conditions were perfect for us quick-thinking Mammalia, so we took over, along […]