The smartest event in Houston is back with a roar! Rub elbows with the brainiacs and social butterflies on the dance floor, pick your potion at the cash bars, and chow down with the best food trucks the city has to offer this summer. Doors open at 7 p.m., skip the line when you buy your tickets online!
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- The Morian Hall of Paleontology
- Morian Overlook
- Wiess Energy Hall
- Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals
- Farish Hall Of Texas Wildlife
- Second Floor Mezzanine
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- Lillie and Roy Cullen Grand Entry Hall
- Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Hall
- Cockrell Butterfly Center
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- Burke Baker Planetarium Theatre
- Wortham Giant Screen Theatre
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- Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Hall
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals
- Everyday Fabergé
- Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife
- Frensley/Graham Hall of African Wildlife
- George W. Strake Hall of Malacology
- Hall of Ancient Egypt
- Hamman Hall of Texas Coastal Ecology
- Herzstein Foucault Pendulum
- John P. McGovern Hall of The Americas
- Lester & Sue Smith Gem Vault
- Morian Hall of Paleontology
- Welch Hall of Chemistry
- Wiess Energy Hall
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- Amazing Butterflies
- Amber Secrets: Feathers from the Age of Dinosaurs
- Amending America: The Bill of Rights
- Amusement Park Science
- Ancient Ukraine
- Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution
- Art and the Animal
- Art of the Gunsmith: From Columbus to Napoleon
- Battleship Texas
- Benjamin Franklin
- Big Bend Photos
- Biodiversity in the Art of Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen
- Biophilia: A Dialogue of Nature, Art and Science
- Block Party
- Body Carnival: The Science And Fun Of Being You
- BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain – Our Three Pound Gem
- BODY WORLDS 3: The Anatomical Exhibition Of Real Human Bodies
- Bronze Sculptures of Bob Pack
- Bulgari: 130 Years Of Masterpieces
- China’s Lost Civilization: The Mystery Of Sanxingdui6
- Chocolate: The Exhibition
- Conservation Quest ®
- Crime Lab Detective
- Crystals Of India
- CSI: The Experience
- Curator’s Choice: Recent Acquisitions of the Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Death by Natural Causes
- Diana, a Celebration
- Dinosaur Discovery
- Dinosaur Mummy CSI
- Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
- Discovering The Civil War
- Fabergé: From a Snowflake to an Iceberg
- Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler To The Tsars
- Forgotten Gateway
- Frogs! A Chorus of Colors
- Gems of the Medici
- Gems of the Sea: The Guido T. Poppe Collection
- Gemstone Carvings
- Genghis Khan
- Geopalooza! A Hard Rock Anthology
- Gladiators: Heroes of the Colosseum
- Gold! Natural Treasure, Cultural Obsession
- Imperial Rome
- InFocus: A Museum Photographic Experience
- Knights
- Kremlin Gold
- La Virgen de Guadalupe: Empress of the Americas
- Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius
- Life in Stone
- Lizards & Snakes
- Lucy’s Legacy
- Machu Picchu: Unveiling The Mystery Of The Incas
- Magic!
- Magna Carta
- Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State
- Mars by Luke Jerram
- Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats
- Maya 2012: Prophecy becomes History
- Message in a Bottle
- Microsculpture: The Insect Photography of Levon Biss
- Mummies of the World
- Mummy: The Inside Story
- National Geographic Channel Presents SuperCroc
- Out of the Amazon: Life on the River
- Pompeii : The Exhibition
- Real Pirates!
- ROBOTS
- Royal Tombs of Ur: Ancient Treasures From Modern Iraq
- Saint Peter and The Vatican
- Samurai: The Way Of The Warrior
- Secret World Of The Forbidden City: Splendors From China’s Imperial Palace, 1644-1911
- Secrets of the Silk Road
- Shackleton’s Expedition
- Shark!
- Spies, Traitors, Saboteurs: Fear And Freedom In America
- Spirits & Headhunters: Vanishing Worlds Of The Amazon
- State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource
- Stonehenge: Ancient Mysteries and Modern Discoveries
- Sweet – A Tasty Journey
- Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians Of China’s First Emperor
- Texas! The Exhibition
- The Art of the Brick
- The Birth of Christianity: A Jewish Story
- The Cave Paintings of Lascaux
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition
- The Chronophage Clock
- The First Game: The Birth of Basketball
- The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes
- The Living Genome: Reading The Book Of Life
- The Lord Of The Rings Motion Picture Trilogy: The Exhibition
- The National Parks Photography Project
- The Nature of Diamonds
- The Nature of Pearls
- The Zula Patrol: Mission Weather
- Tibet: Treasures From The Roof Of The World
- Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
- Treasures from Shanghai
- Treasures in Gold & Jade
- TreeHouses
- TreeHouses: Look Who’s Living In The Trees!
- Vanishing Arts: Highlights from the Beasley-Hwang Collection
- Victoria: The T. rex
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
- Voyages of Discovery
- Warriors, Tombs and Temples
- Wild Bees
- Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 54
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 55
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