Houston Museum of Natural Science

Originally situated in the City Auditorium house in downtown, the Houston science museum was later shifted to another building inside Houston Zoo in the year 1929. The museum's major collection was obtained between 1914 and 1930. The existing flair in Hermann Park was constructed in the year 1969. In 1988, the science museum became the first partner site for the Challenger Center Association. The museum's high turnout levels have allowed the place to start plans to spread out and double its floor space in the coming years. The new displays are most likely to concentrate on dinosaurs and astronomy.

Burke Baker Planetarium displays a variety of science and astronomy illustrations. The planetarium is set with the SkySkan Digital Sky star field projector that can counterfeit stars, globes, comets, vague objects and other extraordinary effects. A digital stereo sound system also adds to planetarium's exceptional effects.

Cockrell Butterfly Center was opened in 1964, it's a butterfly zoo situated in museum complex. The center is accommodated in a triple story glass building full of tropical vegetation as well as butterflies. The center displays a huge range of live butterflies, and contains the wandering monarchs as well as their tropical cousins, show cases of some other live bugs. The center also features the Entomology lobby, demonstrating an extensive range of grown insects.

Isaac Arnold Hall of Space Science is full of artifacts and puts on display some of the manned and unmanned space tracks. The Challenger Learning Center offering a down-to-earth replication of Mission Control, is an adjoining part of this hall.

Evelyn and Herbert Frensley Hall of African Wildlife, showcases taxidermies, having one of only two jungle giraffes displayed in North America. It was opened in the year 1969; the hall allows visitors to walk around the 7 biomes of Africa. More than 120 samples counting forty two groups of birds and twenty eight groups of mammals are on display.