MUSEUM DISTRICT DAY

 MUSEUM DISTRICT DAY

Enjoy a free day in the Houston Museum District at our annual Museum District Day. Join us on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 10am-5pm when 18 museums will offer free general admission and many museums will host special events and exhibits. Visitors are encouraged to walk from one museum to another, but in place of the traditional bus rides offered in the past, free pedicabs will also be available — a new addition to the festivities.

Participating museums include: Asia Society Texas Center, Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Children's Museum of Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Czech Center Museum Houston, The Health Museum, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Rothko Chapel, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The Jung Center of Houston, The John C. Freeman Weather Museum, Museum of African American Culture, Lawndale Art Center, The Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Rice University Art Gallery.



Museum District Day Activities

Asia Society Texas Center: 1 to 4 p.m. - Exploring Central Asia and the Silk Road through crafts, demonstrations, exhibits, storytelling and a very special music workshop.

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – The Buffalo Soldier Story, historical reenactment

Children’s Museum of Houston: All day – Hands-on Exhibit: Instructables: Made in your Mind

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: All day – Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) exhibition 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. — On CAMH's front lawn: music, refreshments and art workshops led by CAMH's Teen Council

Czech Center Museum Houston: All day – Czech American impressionist artist Kamil Kubik



The Health Museum: All Day - Enjoy live science Discovery Carts, Planet You 3D film, permanent exhibits, kids activities and the new fall

exhibit Sonic Sensation, a fun multi-sensory exhibition for children and adults that lets you see, feel, and hear sound.

Holocaust Museum Houston: All day – Holocaust survivors and Darfurians share stories Blood Memory: A View from the Second Generation and Inheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery

Houston Center of Contemporary Craft: All day – Gathering of the Guilds craft demonstrations, Glass Graphica exhibitz



Houston Center for Photography: All Day - Enjoy “In Appropriation” in the West and Central Galleries and “Learning Curve 6” in the East Gallery.

Each exhibition will have accompanying audio tours from the exhibiting artists, curators, and jurors via OnCell

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Houston Museum of African American Culture: All Day - The Everything Bert exhibition will display a selection of international acclaimed artist Bert L. Long Jr.’s large and eclectic body of work including a 30 ton multicolored ice sculpture commissioned for the exhibition

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Houston Museum of Natural Science: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Meet KHOU-TV Channel 11 anchors and reporters. RadioDisney on-site from 2 to 4 p.m.

All Day - Tour the museum’s Permanent Exhibit Halls.

Jung Center of Houston: All day – collage making 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Instructor Q&A on expressive writing, typology and dreams

Lawndale Art Center: All day – "F" Team Mural by Daniel Anguilu, James Burns, Tierney L. Malone, Angel Quesada, Michael C. Rodriguez, Roland Saldaña and Dandee Warhol; Exhibitions by Paolo Piscitelli, Angela Piehl, Lillian Warren and Candace Hicks

The Menil Collection: All day – Ongoing Cultural workshops Gifts of the Spirit, Gifts of Healing

3 to 5 p.m. Musicircus by John Cage

Free posters while supplies last

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: All day – I-Spy Gallery Activity, Family art-making activities: Create a Japanese rice paper screen

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Mask-making at the Glassell Junior School

Rice University Art Gallery: All day – Tradition Redefined The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art

Rothko Chapel: 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. – Landscape Scrolls, Assistant Professor of Percussion at SHSU John Lane, Ph.D. Special 25% discount on individual and family memberships.

Weather Museum: All day – When Weather Goes Wild! and Extreme Weather Guide



St. Paul’s United Methodist Church: All Day - Sit and rest inside modified Gothic sanctuary. Periodic organ concerts. Labyrinth outside.



Click here for a list of some of the activities happening on Museum District Day.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS, PARTNERS AND MEDIA

Houston Press, The Greensheet, Houston Public Radio – KUHF News 88.7 FM & Classical 91.7 FM, Houston Family Magazine have provided media support for Museum District Day 2012.