Opening October 3rd in Sugar Land: A branch of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, smack dab in the center of the former prison farm now known as Telfair. The museum is a rehab of the old Central State Farm Prison building, but it has a better-sounding new address: 13019 University Blvd., at the corner of New Territory Blvd.
Meanwhile, far to the north, HMNS’s Woodlands Xploration Station in the Woodlands Mall is shutting down on September 7th. The Woodlands Children’s Museum next door to it will close a little less than a month later. Going into those vacated spaces: Forever 21.
- HMNS at Sugar Land
- Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land to open Oct. 3 [Houston Business Journal]
- Houston Museum of Natural Science to open Sugar Land satellite Oct. 3 [Houston Chronicle]
- Two museums in Woodlands mall set to close [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of new Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land: HMNS
Hmmm, looks like we’ll have to travel farther for a museum but can stay close to home for clothes.
From Jessie M:
Hmmm, looks like we’ll have to travel farther for a museum but can stay close to home for clothes.
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Only if you want to look like a stylish 13-year-old!
The Central State Farm Prison building is really lovely–I’m glad they have found a new use for it.
It’s nice that we have managed to save a little history. From the days even before the prison when that land was the Sartartia plantation, residents will have an opportunity to appreciate the area’s heritage. Leadbelly would be proud.
I can remember taking HWY 6 to Surfside and seeing P-Farm inmates picking cotton in those fields (no, they were all white, guess they segregated the jails then). My how times have changed.
Also, there wasn’t a single stoplight the whole route.