Museum Updates

Find out everything you need to know about what’s happening at the Museum.

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Henry Yau
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(713) 535-7267

October 10, 2025

Rube Goldberg Exhibit Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Children’s Museum Houston will celebrate the grand opening of Rube Goldberg™: The World of Hilarious Invention! exhibit with a life-sized Rube Goldberg machine designed to snip the ceremonial ribbon in the most wonderfully overcomplicated way possible.

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October 6, 2025

Safe Trick-or-Treating at Children's BOOseum Houston this Halloween!

Children’s Museum Houston is bubbling over with frightfully fun activities as it transforms into the BOO!seum from now through Oct. 31, 2025. For a whole month, families can creep it real with daily Halloween magic, mystery, monsters, and more—culminating in an epic Halloween Night extravaganza!

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October 3, 2025

Sensory Friendly Days at Children's Museum Houston and Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center

Sensory Friendly Days are back at Children's Museum Houston and Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center—designed just for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), sensory processing disorder, and other developmental differences, along with their families.

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September 8, 2025

Rube Goldberg Exhibit Debuts at Children's Museum Houston

Children’s Museum Houston is putting the fun in “fundamentally overengineered” with the opening of Rube Goldberg™: The World of Hilarious Invention!, an all-new exhibit inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and inventor whose wacky contraptions turned the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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September 8, 2025

Children's Museum Houston CEO Elected to ASTC Board of Directors

Children’s Museum Houston CEO Rayanne Darensbourg has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC).

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September 8, 2025

VIP Pre-Gala Fashion Show with Tootsies

Toosies turned into the hottest runway north of Bayside High as Children’s Museum Houston hosted its VIP pre-gala fashion show to gear up for this year’s annual gala, Prom Night: Party Like It’s 1999.

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September 2, 2025

Attention Childhood Educators! It's time to apply for the Martel Early Childhood Educator Award

Applications for the Marian and Speros Martel Early Childhood Educator Award are now open!

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August 4, 2025

Tot*Spot Transformation in Progress

Tot Spot is on the move! We're creating an all-new Early Childhood exhibit on the second floor! Beginning Aug. 18, Tot*Spot will be temporarily relocated to the Lower Level (available Aug 23). But don’t worry—toddlers will rule the entire Museum!

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July 8, 2025

Coming Together for Texas Families

We're standing together with our community affected by the Texas floods. Come see how we’re helping and how your family can too.

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June 24, 2025

2025 Randy Allen Spring Golf Classic

On May 1 at Memorial Park Golf Course, more than 90 golfers, led by chairs Laurie Allen, Kate and Steve Gibson, and Susan and Steve Solcher, teed off in style—and together raised an impressive $209,821,marking the second-highest total in the tournament’s history!

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