sjmarsha
| Missouri City, TX | 36 Reviews
We went to this museum a week ago, as we had half priced vouchers we obtained here on Voice Daily Deals. I believe regular priced tickets are $5 each. The museum is in a large old home. I wish there'd be some information about the house itself, who'd lived there, etc, as I found it fascinating, but I didn't see anything. When you walk in, you go to the left and that's where you pay. The lady at the desk said we were free to walk around and have a look at our leisure. If you keep walking past the office there is a hallway. To the left is an old bedroom which now holds a large green screen, a video camera and some computer equipment. You can stand in front of the green screen and pretend you are a weatherperson giving the report on the news. Back out in the hallway you walk straight ahead (to the back of the house) and there is another bedroom set up to teach about climates. There are frogs and lizards in various cages, and fun activities for the kiddos concerning climates of different regions. Leaving that room you turn left and there's a large room that teaches about hurricanes. There are all sorts of pictures of various hurricanes that have affected this area over the years, and a representation of a hurricane prepardness kit. There are activity sheets for kids to track hurricanes, preparedness lists and other hurricane information. Keep walking and the next room is about tornadoes. There are photos of tornadoes from F1 to F5s, tornados in a bottle to play with and a neat little tornado chamber machine with a tiny little tornado blowing around in the center. Walking to the next room there is info about floods. This area was particularly neat for me, as my grandfather worked for the Harris County Flood Control for several decades. There were photos of major floods in the Houston area such as Tropical Storm Allison and also many that happened well before I was born. There was also a wall with various weather related toys and knick-knacks that were fun to look at. The next room was set up as a little movie theater and had a tv set playing a show about Hurricane Ike's devastation of Galveston. Leave this room and you're in another hallway with another bathroom. Go forward toward the front of the house and there's another former bedroom filled with many old weather related machines and gadgets that are roped off so that you can't touch them. The front area, which I assume must've been a living room or den, had a replica of the solar system hanging from the ceiling and weather related memorabilia inside glass cases. There was an upstairs, but it was roped off and said employees only. There's no parking lot for the museum, and they encouraged street parking, which seemed ample at 11am on a Friday morning. The Asia Society Museum's parking lot was directly across the street and was pay parking. I would recommend street parking, if you can find it. Not a horrible museum, not the best in Houston either. If you are a homeschooler teaching the kiddos about weather, this would be a great place to go, or if you or your children are very into weather or Houston history. I might wait until it's free to visit. It doesn't take much time to see everything, so you may want to plan to visit some other museums in the area also (which you're in luck, there are many).
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