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The Houston Zoo is made up of many moving parts. We have over 6,000 permanent residents (our animals) for whom we provide housing, meals, medical care and, yes, even education! There are over 2 million guests each year who come to experience our incredible variety of animals and ecosystems, as well as attend special private and public events and entertainment.

Home of the Houston Texans! The NRG Stadium is the only rodeo and NFL indoor/outdoor retractable roof stadium that can be configured to utilize a 125,000 squarefoot space for general sessions, catered functions, exhibits, concerts, and much more. NRG Stadium sets the perfect stage for exhibits, concerts, and professional or amateur sporting events, and provides incredible club level meeting spaces for general sessions and catered functions.

The Museum of Fine Arts - Houston is one of the largest museums in the United States. The permanent collection ofthe museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with approximately 64,000works from six continents. The museum benefits the Houston community throughprograms, publications and media presentations.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, anorganization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people ofHouston focusing on education and science. Museum attendance totals over twomillion visitors each year. The museum complex consists of a central facilitywith four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant ScreenTheatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre.

The Children's Museum of Houston is a playground for your mind with 90,000 square feet of exhibits to fascinate children ages 1 to 12 and a mission to transform communities through innovative, child-centered learning.

Dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs.

One of Houston's oldest public parks, Hermann Park is home to numerous cultural institutions including the Houston Zoo, Miller Outdoor Theatre, the HoustonMuseum of Natural Science, and the Hermann Park Golf Course, which became oneof the first desegregated public golf courses in the United States in 1954. Thepark also features a large reflecting pool, numerous gardens, picnic areas, and McGovern Lake, an 8-acre recreational lake.

Miller Outdoor Theatre is an outdoor theater for the performing arts in Houston, Texas. It is located on approximately 7.5 acres of land in Hermann Park. The theater offers a wide range of professional entertainment, including classical music, jazz, ballet, Shakespeare, musical theater, and classic films, with free performances running from March through November, where the general public can relax in a covered seating area or enjoy a pre-performance picnic on an amphitheater-style hillside.

NRG Center is equipped with a technological infrastructure capable of providing high-speed internet access, pre-wired fiber optic cabling backbone, on-site production facilities, 120 television monitors, and web-casting abilities. Offering over 706,000 square feet of contiguous single-level exhibit spacedivisible into 11 separate halls, NRG Center boasts 59 meeting rooms configurable into over 100 variations, 2 major conference centers, 118 loading bays, over 150,000 square feet of registration space, and 280,000 square foot marshalling area.