Guidebook for Houston
Shopping
The Galleria area is the hub of high-end, premier shopping in Houston.
With 3 million square feet and over 375 stores the Houston Galleria is the largest mall in Texas. The Galleria has four floors of shops, restaurants, entertainment, boutiques, and high-end retailers. The rink floor has Ice at the Galleria, the largest indoor ice skating rink in Texas. The main anchor stores include Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Macys, and Neiman-Marcus. Search for The Houston Galleria, and the Uptown District in Houston, in your browser for more details.
Forbes ranked the Galleria as one of the world's best shopping malls.
Surrounding the Galleria are other upscale shopping centers and districts
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The Galleria
5085 Westheimer RdThe Galleria area is the hub of high-end, premier shopping in Houston.
With 3 million square feet and over 375 stores the Houston Galleria is the largest mall in Texas. The Galleria has four floors of shops, restaurants, entertainment, boutiques, and high-end retailers. The rink floor has Ice at the Galleria, the largest indoor ice skating rink in Texas. The main anchor stores include Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Macys, and Neiman-Marcus. Search for The Houston Galleria, and the Uptown District in Houston, in your browser for more details.
Forbes ranked the Galleria as one of the world's best shopping malls.
Surrounding the Galleria are other upscale shopping centers and districts
Essentials
Central Market
3815 Westheimer RdRandalls
2225 Louisiana StIncludes Pharmacy
Walgreens
3317 Montrose BlvdPharmacy
Everything Else
Huge store. Products in large, family size quantities. Includes a pharmacy. Lots of sample foods served on the weekends.
Must purchase membership card to shop there.
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Costco Wholesale
3836 Richmond AveHuge store. Products in large, family size quantities. Includes a pharmacy. Lots of sample foods served on the weekends.
Must purchase membership card to shop there.
Arts & Culture
The Menil Collection is open to the public, and admission is free. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday 11 am to 7 pm. It is located near the University of St. Thomas in the Neartown area of Houston.
The collection consists of approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.
The museum's holdings are diverse, including early to mid-twentieth century works of Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, among others.[3] The museum also maintains an extensive collection of pop art and contemporary art from Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
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The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross StThe Menil Collection is open to the public, and admission is free. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday 11 am to 7 pm. It is located near the University of St. Thomas in the Neartown area of Houston.
The collection consists of approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.
The museum's holdings are diverse, including early to mid-twentieth century works of Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, among others.[3] The museum also maintains an extensive collection of pop art and contemporary art from Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre). The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks just below New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in most attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums.
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science
5555 Hermann Park DrThe museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre). The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks just below New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in most attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums.