Make it a Museum Monday! 🦋🐬🦖🌍🔬

Grab the fam and spend your Memorial Day weekend here in HMNS. We're open from 9am - 6pm. See you soon!

📷© HMNS | Mike Rathke
#houston #museum #hmns #weekend #MemorialDay

Looking for things to do around Htown on a budget? Try Houston CityPASS!

The next time you drop in, ask our Box Office staff about this convenient and efficient way to tour on a budget.

Or plan ahead and purchase online at hmns.citypass.com.

Thank you to our Houston-area linemen

As thousands of home and business owners suffered through the recent storm aftermath without lights and AC, men and women from within and beyond city limits worked to help restore power. 🙏❤️

#Houston #HtownStrong

Stay safe H-Town! ❤

If you find yourself in need of indoor adventures, we are open regular hours today.

Meet 'Carlos' the Alexandrine Parakeet 🦜

Carlos is quickly becoming a fan favorite in the Cockrell Butterfly Center, much to Smégol the Green Iguana's disdain 🦎

📷 ©️ HMNS | Mike Rathke

This swallow hieroglyph had the sound value 'wer', and was used to write the word 'great'. Free-standing sculptors' models of signs of parts of the body were circulated to establish standard style and proportions throughout a project.

Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC

Sharks! The Meg, The Monsters & The Myths 🦈

Dive into this fin-tastic exhibition 💦
hmns.org/exhibits/shark…

#sharks #thingstodoinhoustontx #houstontxsummer #marinebiology
#EXHIBITION

Attention museumgoers 🗣️

The Houston Museum of Natural Science at Hermann Park will close today at 1PM due to a private event.

#HMNS #HMNS Update

Birding the Texas Upper Coast, a birdwatching Mecca 🐦

#birdwatching #highisland #texasbirding

Become a member and see all the permanent exhibits for free 🥊

Learn more: hmns.org/membership/

#transition #houstonmuseum

Learning is for everybody!

This morning we opened early for Sensory Friendly Day, which is aimed to make our museum accessible for everybody!

Neurodiversity matters.
Accessibility matters.

#accessibility #houston #museum

Accessibility is our love language! ❤️

We are excited to offer specialized resources such as Sensory Friendly Day (this Saturday, April 27 from 8am-10am) to support experiences for visitors with disabilities and their peers and families.

#SensoryPlay #AutismAwareness

These 'hollow' brown balls in your yard are 'Oak Galls'.

They are made of plant material that often form around wasp larvae, but can form around any foreign material the tree wants to isolate and yeet.

Not typically dangerous to you, nor the tree.

AKA 'Oak apples.' #trees

Roll on in to HMNS on Tuesdays. It's FREE from 5-8PM #freetuesday #houstonmuseum

How are you celebrating Earth Day today? 🌎

Planet vs Plastic is the theme for 2024 which aims to reduce the production of plastic by 60% by the year 2040.

The good folks seen here are celebrating around Gaia, by Luke Jerram which can be seen in our Grand Hall.
#EarthDay2024

Don't we all?

A wise person once said -- 'The best way to cure a hard week is to visit the Natural Science Museum on the weekend.'

#FridayFunny #sciencememe #houstonmuseum

Now a Doja Cat stan account.

#Coachella2024

This handsome boi on your backyard fence is the Brown Anole lizard.

His colorful neck flap is called a dewlap. He uses this rizz to slide in to her DM's and to warn other bros about catching these hands.

#Science #animals #nature #rizz

Just found out that rabbits can swim. Also learned their ears go into swim mode when they do. This is important news.

If you had a time machine that could take you to one of the four time periods, where are you going?

A) Mesozoic Era (Dinosaurs)
B) Ancient Egypt (3100 B.C. - 332 B.C.)
C) Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)
D) The Late 1900s (Saved by the Bell)