The Official Thresher Guide to Obscure Museums
Address: 2403 Milam Street
Hours: Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Don’t miss: The fire locker exhibition
Why it’s awesome: The Houston Fire Museum’s kind of small, but there's plenty to keep you occupied for a while. Based in an old firehouse, the museum strives to convey the history of the Houston Fire Department through firehouse relics from every decade, including preserved firetrucks, training and rest facilities and gear. It’s a good place to visit to reconnect with your childhood dream of becoming a firefighter.
Houston’s world-class museums are awesome. If you haven’t yet frequented the Museum of Fine Arts, the Menil Collection or the Houston Museum of Natural Science, well that’s just shameful, and you should go right now before reading on. That said, Houston is also jam-packed with a bunch of weird little museums that are just as spectacular as the others but far easier to miss in a short four-year stay. Fortunately, their narrow focuses and smaller scales make it easy to hit many of them in a day, making for a perfect Saturday afternoon of museum hopping. So go ahead, grab your best tourist attire and some good walking shoes and use this little guide to see ’em all.
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