The Health Museum

The Health Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is a multi-sensory and ever-evolving interactive experience featuring health science advances and the intricacies and implications of how bodies work. The Health Museum offers year-long programs and camps for all ages, special events, corporate rentals and exhibitions including the DeBakey Cell Lab, which puts guests in the center of their own hands-on science exploration.

General admission for adults is $10, admission for children 3-12 and seniors 65+ is $8, children 2 and under are admitted for free.

The Amazing Body Gallery
The Jim Hickox Amazing Body Pavilion is a larger-than-life walking tour through the human body. Features include:

• Approximately 30 interactive video and audio kiosks invite guests to pose interesting questions about human anatomy and health information
• A 22-foot-long backbone with ribs descending from the ceiling to the floor, creating the feeling of being inside a giant rib cage

The hands-on experiences include:

• 13-foot intestine 
• Texas-sized, 10-foot-tall walk-through brain with memory games 
• Skeleton riding a bicycle 
• Colossal walk-in eyeball that demonstrates how your eye receives and perceives images 
• Visual demonstrations of depth perception
• 12-foot tall beating heart
• Calorie crank conveying how many calories you must burn for specific foods you eat
• Giant human heart wheel with biometric systems that check your heart rate while running or walking
• Jump, Stretch and Hang activity for vertical hanging endurance
• Heart Wall: journey through to understand the functions and importance of one of the more complex organs in the body
• Scream Booth: take part in the unique experience that is our scream booth
• DeBakey Cell Lab: come gear up and see what it’s like to be a scientist