Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920, a groundbreaking exhibition shedding light on a difficult time in history that included both…
January 24 through May 25, 2025
Houston Survivor Series: Liberation
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Learn about the extraordinary lives of local Holocaust Survivors and their legacy with the upcoming fifth installment of Houston Survivor Series.…
December 13 through May 04, 2025
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) is pleased to announce the widely acclaimed exhibition, The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, celebrating…
January 12 through June 23, 2024
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to announce a compelling and transformative exhibition, Facing Survival | David Kassan, opening in Houston July…
July 12 through January 05, 2024
Berlin: A Jewish Ode to the Metropolis
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will open Berlin: A Jewish Ode to the Metropolis, Friday, July 14, 2023. The exhibition features 27 photographs…
July 14 through September 10, 2023
The Life and Art of Alice Lok Cahana
From the Holocaust Museum Houston: "Celebrated artist and Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana made a vow as she faced the horrors of Auschwitz, and later,…
February 03 through April 09, 2023
Woman, the Spirit of the Universe
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Woman, the Spirit of the Universe, designed and created by artist Carolyn Marks Johnson, opens Friday, January 13, 2023, in Holocaust…
January 13 through April 02, 2023
Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Discover one of the most important and powerful achievements of the 20th century – the singular and complex artwork Life? Or Theatre? by…
August 19 through December 04, 2022
The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will host the Texas debut of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, presented by…
March 11 through July 31, 2022
Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare,
From Holocaust Museum Houston: "Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will host the multi-sensory exhibition, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, highlighting issues of persecution, loss of civil…
October 29 through February 20, 2022
Withstand: Latinx Art in Times of Conflict
Admission update from the Holocaust Museum Houston: "Admission at Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will be free every second Saturday this summer on June 12, July…
April 30 through October 17, 2021
Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
"A selection of the photographer’s own visual memoir of his time in the civil rights movement, captures both brutal encounters and prayerful moments. A giant…
October 18 through January 05, 2020
The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust
"Curated by Texas Tech University in collaboration with the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, this powerful show tells the story of 24 U.S. soldiers who…
September 07 through October 28, 2018
Michael S Cohen: The Faces of Syrian Refugees
An exhibition featuring works by photographer Michael S Cohen. The pieces in the show are "life sized color portraits accompanied by Proust questionnaire style interviews, offering…
June 21 through August 26, 2018
A celebration in advance of the Holocaust Museum Houston's closing for construction. The event will feature free admission to the museum, live music, food trucks, poetry readings,…
July 22 through July 22, 2017
Barbara Hines: A Celebration of Survival
An exhibition of works by artist Barbara Hines. The exhibition attempts to focus on "what could be" rather than examining the horrors of the past. The…
January 16 through May 20, 2017
Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964
An exhibition about the bracero program, "the largest guest worker program in U.S. history, which brought millions of Mexican nationals north to work on short-term labor…
December 09 through May 14, 2017
An exhibition commemorating the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.The show will feature a selection of butterflies created by children from across the world.
February 11 through December 31, 2016
GENOCIDE: Man’s Inhumanity to Humankind
A juried exhibition of works that explore the theme of genocide. The show is organized by the Holocaust Museum Houston’s changing exhibitions committee, including Gus Kopriva,…
September 30 through December 31, 2016
H·O·P·E: Paintings by Samuel Bak
An exhibition of paintings by Samuel Bak. The works in the show "do not attempt to illustrate the atrocities of the Holocaust, yet they show viewers…
April 01 through September 11, 2016
It’s title referring to the Japanese concept of gaman, "to endure the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity," this exhibition features more than 120 creative…
January 30 through September 20, 2015
Pauline Jakobsberg: Birthrights Left Behind
DC-area printmaker Pauline Jakobsberg’s works address the Holocaust and the loss of birthright that accompanies the loss of one's homeland.
October 31 through June 14, 2015
A new documentary film about Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, who saved many thousands of Hungary Jews during WWII through the creative use of protective letters…
February 12 through February 12, 2015
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust
This exhibition features 58 photographs revealing WWII as seen through the lens of important Soviet photojournalists. Printed over six decades, the collection includes works by…
April 25 through October 27, 2013
Through the use of personal objects, rare documents and photographs, “Uprooted” highlights the experiences of two Jewish families featuring materials from Holocaust Museum Houston’s Permanent…
April 12 through September 29, 2013
Karl Koenig: Fragments: Architecture of the Holocaust, An Artist’s Journey through the Camps
Koenig uses gumoil photographic printing techniques to explore the architectural remains of 10 Nazi concentration camps. Based on his book of the same title, the…
January 31 through March 29, 2013
Lisa Rosowsky: Blood Memory: A View from the Second Generation
Explores the "second generation" experience as the daughter of a hidden child and refugee from the Holocaust. Themes of repression and loss emerge, as do…
September 14 through March 24, 2013
Leslie Starobin: Inheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery
Boston-area artist and photographer Leslie Starobin highlights the bravery and hope of six families through a series of individual photomontages, each depicting their experiences during…
September 14 through March 24, 2013
Returning: The Art of Samuel Bak
50 of Bak's paintings, studies and sketches bear personal testimony to the trauma of surviving.
February 17 through August 12, 2012
Burton Reckles: Eulogy: A Holocaust Art Piece
A special presentation by Houstonian Burton Reckles, an internationally-recognized ship-in-a-bottle artisan who will speaks about his latest artwork, Eulogy. Reckles turned his talents to creating…
September 01 through September 01, 2011
The Holocaust Museum's new library exhibition Passage to a New Life includes a selection of photographs, documents and artifacts from the Museum's permanent collections and…
January 14 through August 07, 2011
Clemens Kalischer: Displaced Persons / Fragile Fragments
Displaced Persons, chronicles the arrival of Holocaust refugees in the United States between 1947 and 1948 in New York. Kalischer's show also includes the image…
November 05 through June 05, 2011
Whoever Saves a Life. Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Holocaust Museum Houston's traveling exhibit Whoever Saves a Life. Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust showcases a history of the Holocaust highlighting instances where people…
January 10 through February 28, 2011
After a fashion career that spanned six decades, Dallas Hill now lives and paints in a cedar-lined cabin in the Texas art community of New…
September 17 through December 17, 2010
Hans Molzberger: Never Let It Rest!
German artist Hans Molzberger remembers growing up in the south of Germany after World War II. Through his unique mixed-media pieces in Never Let It…
April 15 through October 03, 2010
Examining Restitution: The Bielitz Collection
Examining Restitution: The Bielitz Collection is on view at the Laurie and Milton Boniuk Resource Center and Library at the Holocaust Museum Houston. This exhibition…
January 01 through August 31, 2010
"Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust depicts the heroic stories of Albanian Muslims who showed a heart-melting kindness and righteous determination to save…
July 17 through April 05, 2010
Theodor Seuss Geisel: Dr. Seuss Wants You!
Check out work from Dr. Seuss' serious side and his "cartoons" focused on the concerns of WWII.
September 26 through July 05, 2009
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