Moonscape Bench

Moonscape Bench is a work of art in Harris County, Texas. Moonscape Bench is situated nearby to the grassland Whistletop Prairie, as well as near Molly Ann Smith Plaza.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pioneer Memorial and Japanese Garden.

Pioneer Memorial

Obelisk

Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pioneer Memorial is an outdoor 1936 granite obelisk by Frank Teich, erected in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, in the United States.

Japanese Garden

Garden

Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Houston's Japanese Garden is a 5.5-acre Japanese garden in Hermann Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. The garden was designed by Tokyo landscape designer Ken Nakajima and opened in 1992. Japanese Garden is situated 590 feet northwest of Moonscape Bench.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Museum

Photo: manousek, CC BY 2.0.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science 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. Houston Museum of Natural Science is situated 1,500 feet north of Moonscape Bench.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Houston Museum District and Texas Medical Center.

Houston Museum District

Suburb

Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.

The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture, located in Houston, Texas, United States.

Texas Medical Center

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

The Texas Medical Center is a neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States. It is immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288.

Central City

Neighborhood

Central City is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. In 2009, residents of Central City supported a bill by Garnet Coleman that would limit the ability of Texas Medical Center, Inc. to exercise its eminent domain rights on residential property.

Moonscape Bench

Type: Work of art
Description: stone bench in Hermann Park
Categories: stone bench, sculpture, and tourism
Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.71809° or 29° 43′ 5″ north

Longitude

-95.39125° or 95° 23′ 29″ west

Inception

1999

Open location code

76X6PJ95+6G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4289030639

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

Wikidata ID

Q136328136

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