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Hermann Park is a 445-acre (180-hectare) urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District. The park is located to the immediate north end of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas Medical Center and Brays Bayou , east of Rice University , and slightly west of the Third Ward .
The Hermann Park Railroad is a 2-foot (610 mm) narrow-gauge railroad located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas. The 1.8-mile (2.9 km) route travels throughout the park with stops at major attractions. A round trip takes about 18 minutes. [1]
The Houston Zoo is a 55-acre (22 ha) zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The zoo houses over 6,000 animals from more than 900 species. It receives around 2 million visitors each year and is the second most visited zoo in the United States, surpassed only by the San Diego Zoo. [3]
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.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.
Type: Gardens: Location: Houston, TX: Coordinates: Created: 2014: Operated by: Hermann Park Conservancy: Status: Open year-round, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day [1]: Plants: 650 azaleas, 490 trees of over 50 species, 55,000 perennial bulbs, 760 hedge shrubs & 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) of grass [1]
Mahatma Gandhi is an outdoor sculpture of the Indian independence movement leader of the same name, installed at Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, in the United States. The statue was dedicated in Hermann Park on October 2, 2004. [1]
Hermann Park was first proposed as a rail destination in 1990 plans for Houston's rail network. [3] When a rail line along Main Street was approved in 2000, Hermann Park was one of the destinations the route intended to serve. [4] To fit with the greenspace aesthetic of Hermann Park, the station was decorated with a garden-themed floor mosaic. [5]
An episode of Houston Public Media TV-8's Arts InSight was filmed in the garden in 2014. [3] In 2017, the garden hosted the Hermann Park Conservancy's fifteenth annual "Evening in the Park" fundraiser. The event commemorated the garden's 25th anniversary and raised more than $600,000 for restoration efforts.