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Texas' Top 25
Children's Museum of Houston (
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Sure, the world-class Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Houston Museum of Nat-
ural Science make their home here. And there are smaller, more specialized museums fo-
cusing on topics such as the weather and the Holocaust. But the star of the neighborhood
really is the Menil Collection (
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). One of the country's top privately owned mu-
seums, the complex contains every thing from 10,000-year-old antiquities to abstract art.
The representation of modern artists, such as David Rothko, is particularly impressive.