Museums and Cultural Arts
More than 200 institutions are devoted to the arts, science and history in
Houston.
Major Houston-Area Arts, Science and History Institutions
Key Art Museums and Galleries
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
The Menil Collection
Selected Performing Arts Organizations
Actors Theatre of Houston
American Festival for the Arts
American Guild of Organists
Ars Lyrica Houston
Cullen Sculpture Garden
Bayou Bend
Bay Area Chorus
Rienzi
Bayou City Chorale
Rice Gallery (Rice U.)
Bayou City Concert Musicals
Chopin Society of Houston
Da Camera
Blaffer Gallery (U. of Houston)
O’Kane Gallery (U. of Houston-Downtown)
University Museum of Texas Southern Univ.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
DiverseWorks
Ensemble Theatre
Gilbert Sullivan Society of Houston
Guitar Houston
Key Performing Arts Facilities
Aerial Theater at Bayou Place
Alley Theatre
Houston Ballet
Houston Chamber Orchestra
Houston Children’s Chorus
Houston Early Music
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
Verizon Wireless Theater at Bayou Place
Wortham Theater Center
Houston Ebony Opera Guild
Houston Friends of Music
Houston Grand Opera
Houston Masterworks Chorus
Houston Symphony Chorus
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Istanpitta Early Music Ensemble
J.S. Bach Society
Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House
Key Science and History Museums
Children’s Museum of Houston
Holocaust Museum Houston
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Lone Star Flight Museum
Main Street Theater
Mercury Baroque Ensemble
Opera in the Heights
Museum of Health Medical Science
San Jacinto Museum of History
John C. Freeman Weather Museum
Space Center Houston
Stages Repertory Theater
Theatre Under the Stars
Woodlands Festival Ballet
Source: Houston Facts 2009
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Houston is one of the few U.S. cities (New York City, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco are others) that offer world-class, year-round resident companies in all of the major performing arts—symphony (Houston Symphony Orchestra), opera (Houston Grand Opera), drama (The Alley Theatre) and ballet (Houston Ballet).
Houston is also home to a leading musical theater company, Theater Under the Stars, and to the Society for the Performing Arts, an active presenter of major national and international attractions in theater, music and dance.
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