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What’s It Like to Be a Museum Guard at the MFAH?
Francisco Narvios, Guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonImage: Sebastian Gomez de la TorreFor Francisco Narvios, working at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is a family affair. After emigrating...
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The Best Gift Shops in the Museum District
If you love things shaped like other, unrelated things, you’ve got two go-to options: SkyMall (also useful if you like clocks attached to random objects), or your local museum gift shop. Need a whistle...
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Hands-On Fun in the Museum District
On Thursdays, check out the Children’s Museum’s Free Family Fun Nights.Image: Cody Duty / Duty Free StudiosYes, you have to stay a foot away from the paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, but...
View ArticleSlideshow: The Museum District in Ten Objects
A guide to finding the Berlin Wall and other pieces of history
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Toot Toot! Go For a Ride With Hermann Park’s Train Conductor
Abraham Tolbert, Miniature Train Conductor at Hermann ParkImage: Sebastian Gomez de la TorreAsk Abraham Tolbert—a lifelong train enthusiast and perhaps Hermann Park’s most lovable miniature train...
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The 7 Exhibitions You Really Can’t Afford to Miss
Thanks to its 20 museums, each with a carefully curated line-up of dynamic exhibitions and events, you could spend a lifetime going from gallery to gallery. Exhibitions, on the other hand, are...
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Dining in the District: 9 Restaurants Within Walking Distance
The famous chili biscuits at Lucille’sImage: KC TaffinderSure, you can eat inside the museums themselves—well, some of them. But something just seems wrong about eating McDonald’s in a museum (sorry,...
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A Privileged Childhood: Growing Up in the Museum District
It was in this three-story, copper-roofed brick home that my grandparents raised their own seven children and several grandchildren.Image: John Nova LomaxFrom kindergarten through eighth grade, I spent...
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Take a Staycation: How to Spend 48 Hours in the Museum District
Monarch Bistro's dining room at Hotel ZaZaImage: Shannon O'HaraLooking to leave it all behind for the weekend? Why not decamp to a place that won’t cost an arm and a leg, that doesn’t need months of...
View ArticleSlideshow: Hermann Park’s Centennial Art Installations
Hermann Park celebrates its 100th birthday with five special public exhibitions.
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