The Health Museum
The Health Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is a multi-sensory and ever-evolving interactive experience featuring health science advances and the intricacies and implications of how bodies work. The Health Museum offers year-long programs and camps for all ages, special events, corporate rentals and exhibitions including the DeBakey Cell Lab, which puts guests in the center of their own hands-on science exploration.
General admission for adults is $10, admission for children 3-12 and seniors 65+ is $8, children 2 and under are admitted for free.
The Amazing Body Gallery
The Jim Hickox Amazing Body Pavilion is a larger-than-life walking tour through the human body. Features include:
- Approximately 30 interactive video and audio kiosks invite guests to pose interesting questions about human anatomy and health information
- A 22-foot-long backbone with ribs descending from the ceiling to the floor, creating the feeling of being inside a giant rib cage
The hands-on experiences include:
- 13-foot intestine
- Texas-sized, 10-foot-tall walk-through brain with memory games
- Skeleton riding a bicycle
- Colossal walk-in eyeball that demonstrates how your eye receives and perceives images
- Visual demonstrations of depth perception
- 12-foot tall beating heart
- Calorie crank conveying how many calories you must burn for specific foods you eat
- Giant human heart wheel with biometric systems that check your heart rate while running or walking
- Jump, Stretch and Hang activity for vertical hanging endurance
- Heart Wall: journey through to understand the functions and importance of one of the more complex organs in the body
- Scream Booth: take part in the unique experience that is our scream booth
- DeBakey Cell Lab: come gear up and see what it’s like to be a scientist
Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau - Member since 1995
General
- Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm Sunday, 12-5pm
- Admission: $8 adults $6 children and seniors
- Group Rates
- Senior Rates
- Child Rates
- Gift Shop
- Free Parking Available
- Accessible Via Light Rail
- No. Blocks from Light Rail: 4
- Private Room for Special Events
- ADA Accessible
- Requirement for Chaperone/Student Ratio: 1 chaperone/10 students
- Advance Notice Required for Groups
- Cancellation Policy for Groups
General
- ADA Accessible
Meeting Facility
- Number of Rooms: 3
- Theatre Capacity: 120
- Banquet Capacity: 200
- Classroom Capacity: 40
- Reception Capacity: 500
- Exhibit space
- Audio/Visual
- Facility Buy Out For Special Event
- Private Room
Meeting Facility Rooms
Room Name | SqFt. | Dimensions | Ceiling | Theater | Classroom | Banquet | Reception |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The George and Barbara Bush Grand Hall | X | 200 | 175 | 350 | |||
The John P. McGovern Theater | X | 120 | |||||
The Learning Center | X | 165 |