Closed Mondays:
Open 7 days a week Memorial Day - Labor Day

 

Tuesday through Saturday:
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

 

Thursday: 5 - 8 p.m.
Free Family Nights are offered every Thursday!

 

Sunday: noon - 6 p.m.

 

 

Event Rental
Admission

$9: Adults and children 1+
$8: Seniors (65+)
Free: Children under 1 and Museum Members

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Cartoon picture of a girl with a pumpkin hat on
Celebrate two spooky weeks of trick-or-treating, costume wearing and hair-raising fun!  Giant spiders, creepy critters, flying ghosts and wicked bats welcome you to a spellbinding adventure as the Children’s Museum of Houston magically morphs into the Happy Halloween Mansion, Oct. 18 – 31.  Wander through the Mansion’s hallways in search of goblin goodies, terrifying trinkets and more!  View Halloween photos (Museum is closed on Mondays, Oct. 17 and 24. We're open on Monday, Oct. 31 from 4-8 pm for the Halloween Spooktacular.)
 

October 19-31. 2 weeks of frightful fun and safe trick or treating

Trick-or-treat from 3 to 6 pm weekdays, until 8 pm on Thursdays, 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays and Noon - 6 pm on Sundays!

 
   
October 28t-31 Extended Hours until 8PM

Open late and special hours from 4 to 8 pm on Oct. 31 during Houston’s ultimate Halloween party for kids, the Halloween Spooktacular!

 
   
Be Enchantingly Rewarded

Calling all pumpkins, superheroes and witches!  Post a photo of your kid in costume to our Facebook page for a chance to WIN a Family Four-Pack of Passes to the Museum! No costume, no problem! Swing by our face painting station and follow a Halloween face painting activity. Then, post that photo to our Facebook page. Every other day we will randomly select a winner Oct. 18-31.






Beware of Fangastic Daily Activities


We’ll pick your brain as you “shop” from a doomed collection of uncanny costumes you make yourself. 



Catch these at the new Attack of the Bloodsuckers exhibit at 3 p.m. on Oct. 22 and at 5 p.m. on Oct. 31.


Snap scare crowing photos in the picturesque Pumpkin Patch.  Whaaa!



These experts will serve as evening entertainment presenting their local Waugh Bridge bat colony expertise and artifacts at 5 and 6 p.m. on Oct. 31.


 
 
 
Catch this spine-chilling live show for a spooky time full of toil and trouble at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 20.


Take home “souvenirs” when you create these at the ExxonMobil Math Cart. 



Head to BooVille where fleeting ghosts will greet you and unleash your inner mischievous sprite to create creepy crawly Bug Rubbings.  Delve further down into the Mansion’s Crypt to be your own Dr. Frankenstein and bring your robotic Frankencritter creations to LIFE! 

Halloween Spooktacular. October 31st 12pm-8pm
boy dressed like a mummy