NW Houston, at the Northwest Station Metro Park & Ride lot, 18502 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77065, on Castlebridge Dr., across from Sam’s Club.
Katy, located at the Katy Mills Mall, Entrance 8. Much of the museum's popularity is attributed to its large number of special or guest exhibits. At the Hillcroft Metro Park & Ride lot, bus Bay D, located at 6220 Southwest Frwy, Houston, TX 77036, near the junction of I-69 and Westpark Tollway. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in most attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums.
The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks just below New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the M. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre). Museum attendance totals over two million visitors each year. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a science museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.