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| Rodeo Houston |
Rodeo Houston, the world’s largest rodeo takes place for three weeks in Houston every March (3 to 22 March 2020). However, it has been cancelled this year.
Established as the Houston Fat Stock Show in 1932, and now held at NRG Park, it attracts 70.000 people daily, with more than 34,000 livestock and horse show entries vying for a chance to become a Houston champion.
After each night’s rodeo competition, performers from nearly all genres of music take to the stage.
A week of events precedes the event including :
- the Rodeo Roundup
- World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest,
- Go Texan Day, and the
- Downtown Rodeo Parade
Other developments in Houston
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| Space Center Houston |
Apollo Mission Control Center
The Historic Mission Control Center located on the third floor of Building 30 on the NASA Johnson Space Center campus has been restored to its authentic look and feel, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the historic lunar landing of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 2019.
The restoration was coordinated by NASA Johnson Space Center.
The public can visit the restored Apollo Mission Control Center by taking a NASA Tram Tour from Space Center Houston.
www.spacecenter.org
Houston Museum District
The Museum District, which comprises 19 institutions divided in walkable zones, is visited by more than 7-million people a year.
They include :
The restoration was coordinated by NASA Johnson Space Center.
The public can visit the restored Apollo Mission Control Center by taking a NASA Tram Tour from Space Center Houston.
www.spacecenter.org
Houston Museum District
The Museum District, which comprises 19 institutions divided in walkable zones, is visited by more than 7-million people a year.
They include :
- Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
- Children’s Museum Houston
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Holocaust Museum Houston
- Houston Center for Photography
- Houston Museum of African American Culture
- Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Houston Zoo, and
- The Museum of Fine Arts.
www.houmuse.org
Houston Zoo
Houston Zoo will celebrate its 100th anniversary, in 2022, by completing a $150 million package of projects. At the moment the zoo is closed.
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| Houston Zoo |
Every year leading to the centennial, the Houston Zoo will open something new for guests to explore.
The Kathrine G. McGovern Texas Wetlands was the first major construction project to open as a result of the campaign, in May 2019, bringing together three native Texas species—bald eagles, whooping cranes, and American alligators in a lush wetland habitat.
The next project scheduled to open in 2020 is Pantanal: Trail of the Jaguar, and will explore the tropical wetlands of Brazil, home to South America’s greatest concentration of wildlife.
www.houstonzoo.org
Holocaust Museum Houston
A recently completed $34 million project at the the Holocaust Museum Houston has more than doubled the size of the complex.
The new Lester and Sue Smith Campus of the museum includes :
The Kathrine G. McGovern Texas Wetlands was the first major construction project to open as a result of the campaign, in May 2019, bringing together three native Texas species—bald eagles, whooping cranes, and American alligators in a lush wetland habitat.
The next project scheduled to open in 2020 is Pantanal: Trail of the Jaguar, and will explore the tropical wetlands of Brazil, home to South America’s greatest concentration of wildlife.
www.houstonzoo.org
Holocaust Museum Houston
A recently completed $34 million project at the the Holocaust Museum Houston has more than doubled the size of the complex.
The new Lester and Sue Smith Campus of the museum includes :
- a new 200-seat theatre
- an expansion of the “Bearing Witness” permanent exhibit that include testimony and artefacts from Houston-area survivors, a new exhibit space for the German World War II railcar, and
- Danish rescue boat and a new library and classroom space among other improvements.
WEBSITE: www.VisitHouston.com
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