FAQ

The regular parties are offered from 9-11am, 12-2pm and 3-5pm daily. The Deluxe Party can be held at any 2 ½ hour time frame during regular business hours, as longs as the space is available. Please contact us for availability.

You can certainly tour the party spaces before you book the party! We offer site visits, by appointment only, Monday through Thursday.

No, we provide trash cans and trash bags in every party room, and we handle all of the clean-up!

We will have signs posted throughout the museum directing guests to your party room. Also, if your guests ask any of our staff members, they will be directed or escorted to the room.

Yes, your guests will not need to purchase a ticket to attend your party. Also, your guests are welcome to stay at the museum up until regular closing time to explore our permanent exhibits for free.

You will be allowed in the space 30 minutes early to set-up any items you may bring.

No, we do not provide food, cake, drinks, or paper goods (such as plates, silverware, napkins, etc).

Yes, you are welcome to bring in your own food or have it delivered. The only restrictions are no alcohol, no heating devices, and no full-scale catering companies.\

Absolutely!

At our Main location (Hermann Park) we have The Food Lab, Fuel Stop, and Chrysalis Café. Our Sugar Land museum only has vending machines.

We include crafts in the party price; it is your decision whether or not to accept the crafts that we offer, but a discount will not be given if you do not use any of our crafts. You are more than welcome to bring in your own additional crafts though.

Our crafts are based on theme and age of the birthday child. If you would like more information, please contact us.

You can purchase an add-on at any time before the party (except the day of the party), but there is no guarantee that an add-on will be available. We recommend giving us at least two weeks notice to better your chance of an add-on being available.

If we offer the service, then you cannot hire your own as we have contracts with the companies we offer. If we do not offer the service, then we may allow the outside service on a case by case basis.

By purchasing an add-on, your party will automatically be extended by 30 minutes (you are not obligated to accept the additional 30 minutes). *Photography add-on does not extend your party.

If you purchase an add-on for a regular party, the party is extended by 30 minutes and the add-on is 45 minutes (at least) in length. The Deluxe Parties are 2 ½ hours in length and include a 30 minute add-on in the price. You can also purchase additional add-ons for the deluxe party, which would extend your party by an extra 30 minutes per add-on.

We do not count infants and toddlers in the overall headcount for the party. However, if a craft is made for an infant or toddler, they will be counted as we have to make sure we have enough craft supplies on hand.

Yes, the party family and birthday child are included in the overall count.

If you have more than the allotted number of children or adults, a fee of $10 per person will apply.

Yes. Guests will receive the member rate if they park in the HMNS Museum Parking Garage. Party coordinators will instruct guests as to how they can receive this parking rate.

Yes, you are more than welcome to pay for your guests parking at the discounted rate if they park in our garage. Let us know if you would like to do this, and we can help facilitate this.

There are several free lots as well as other parking garage surrounding the Museum; however, we can only offer a discount at our parking garage.

No, Sugar Land does not have a parking garage. Our Sugar Land location has an open parking lot that is free to park in.

Anything paid towards the birthday party is non-refundable, but we can change the party date once without an additional charge (party must be rescheduled within a year of the original date).