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572: 593: 538: 199: 478:. Renovated and expanded in 2017, the hall consists of 16 sections, including a working replica of an offshore drilling rig drill floor, a 15K resolution video depicting the history of energy, the "Geovator" (a simulated trip into the rock beneath Houston and back in time to the Cretaceous Period), the "Eagle Ford Shale Experience" (a simulated journey to Karnes County, TX, to experience the hydraulic fracturing of an oil well from inside the cracked rock), "Energy City," (a 1/150th scale white model depicting the entire energy value chain brought to life through projection mapping using 32 laser projectors), and Renewable and Future Energy Sources. 614: 120: 319: 173:, United States. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre). In 2022, the museum received 1,520,000 visitors, making it seventh on the 553: 622: 236: 1247: 1598: 1233: 1610: 127: 38: 231:
Museum attendance was more than one million visitors in 1990. HMNS trustees determined that new state-of-the-art facilities, additional space, and renovations to current exhibits were needed because of the increased attendance. Between 1991 and 1994, a number of exhibit halls were renovated and the
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and a donation from collector John Milsaps, the latter of which formed the core of the museum's gem and mineral collection. First housed in Houston's city auditorium, the collection was subsequently housed in the Central Library for seven years, and then at a site in the
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The initial museum organization was called the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, Inc., and was created in 1909. The museum's primary collection was acquired between 1914 and 1930. This included the purchase of a natural-history collection assembled by
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movies, many of which were created by HMNS staff. Since 2004 its outreach program, "Discovery Dome", takes the planetarium experience on the road, reaching over 40,000 students per year in classrooms and special events in portable digital domes.
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and their tropical cousins. The Cockrell Butterfly Center was reopened in May 2007 after being overhauled to make the exhibit more interactive; there are now games for children and a live insect zoo in the Brown Hall of
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Digistar 1 vector display in 1988, and was the first in the U.S. and third in the world to adopt multiple-projector digital image capability using the Sky-Skan SkyVision system in 1998. That allowed it to show
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HMNS celebrated its 100th year in 2009. During that year, the museum offered a multitude of family programs, lectures, free events, and kids' classes as part of the "Fun Hundred" celebration.
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By the 1980s, the museum's permanent displays included a dinosaur exhibit, a space museum, and exhibits on geology, biology, petroleum science, technology, and geography. In 1988, the
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located in museum complex. Opened in 1994, the center is housed in a three-story glass building filled with tropical plants and butterflies. The center exhibits a large range of live
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opened in May 2013 and contains many millennia-old artifacts and features recreations of Egyptian temples and mummies from this ancient primary civilization.
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In June 2012, HMNS opened a new 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m) wing to house its paleontology hall, more than doubling the size of the original museum.
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expansion of the Sterling Hall of Research was completed. The Cockrell Butterfly Center and the Brown Hall of Entomology opened in July 1994.
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X-ploration Station, located in the Woodlands Mall. The facility was home to an interactive Dig Pit, where children could excavate a mock
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In March 2012, the Wortham IMAX Theatre was converted from 70 mm film to 3D digital and renamed the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre.
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of the continent of Africa. Contains over 120 specimens, including 42 species of birds and 28 species of mammals are on display.
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The museum was officially renamed the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 1960. Construction of the current facility in
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in 1929. The museum's now wide-ranging education programs began in 1947 and, in its second year, hosted 12,000 children.
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opened in 1989 and is one of the world's largest sundials. It includes lenses on a special chrome ball on top of the
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Originally opened in 1969 with a Spitz Space Transit Planetarium, the Planetarium upgraded to an
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exhibited in North America. Opening in 1969, the hall allows visitors to explore the seven
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equipped with three domed telescopes, including a 36-inch (910 mm) Gueymard Research
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Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural Science
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Masterpieces of the Mineral World: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural Science
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projection system. It is one of the first 8k planetariums in the United States.
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Sundial (right) and front exterior of Houston Museum of Natural Science
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Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
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presents a range of science and astronomy shows. As of 2016, the
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skeleton at the Houston Museum in a controversial running posture
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Wilson, Wendell E., Joel A. Bartsch, and Mark Mauthner. (2004).
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Houston Museum of Natural Science at Google Cultural Institute
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Wilson, Wendell E., Bartsch, Joel A., Mauthner, Mark. (2004).
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skeleton ever discovered. It also houses one of the largest
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technology on its 60 by 80 feet (18 by 24 m) screen.
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On October 3, 2009, HMNS opened its satellite museum in
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specimen exhibited in the Morian Hall of Paleontology
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prison that had been unoccupied for several decades.
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Evelyn and Herbert Frensley Hall of African Wildlife
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Index

HMNS

Houston, Texas
Natural history museum
Red Line
Museum District
www.hmns.org
Location marked as MNS
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natural history museum
Hermann Park
Houston
Texas
List of most-visited museums in the United States
Henry Philemon Attwater
Houston Zoo

Hermann Park
Challenger Learning Center
Space Shuttle Challenger
tenth mission

Telfair
Sugar Land, Texas
Woodlands
Triceratops
Sugar Land
Telfair
Central Unit
Texas Department of Criminal Justice

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