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Houston Museum of Natural Science Machine Locations > Texas

5555 Hermann Park Dr
Houston, TX , 77004

Phone: (713) 639-4629

Website

Site revised 9/29/23.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a science museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston. 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.

The Gift Shop sells the third edition of US Pennycollector Elongated Coin Album.
Additionally, as of this post, there were probably 50 of the now retired Houston Natural History Museum Penny Collectorbook in the clearance section of Gift Shop.

The machines are $1 in cash (bill) per coin or all eight for $5 with a credit card or $5 cash as well.

All machines are on the right hand side in main entrance causeway.

Machine 8: (2020 8 design machine) is by the information desk
1) 747 with space Shuttle on top,
2) T-Rex,
3) Butterfly,
4) Triceratops,
5) Bust of Nefertiti,
6) Rhino,
7) I (heart) Science with Lithium atom,
8) Longhorn.

Machine 9: (2020) 8 design machine, s about 20 feet further than the Token machine.
1) Soyuz in space over Earth,
2) Hadrosaur,
3) Butterfly,
4) Polar Bear,
5) Aztec Statue,
6) Brontosaurus,
7) swinging Pendulum ball over design,
8) Skeleton, Leaf & Beaker.

Tokens available for purchase in the main causeway: It is about 20 feet further than Machine 8.
Token Machine 2:
1) Moon Landing,
2) Tyrannosaurus Rex,
3) Cockrell Butterfly Center,
4) Hall of Ancient Egypt. All have Museum name with Space Shuttle, Butterfly & 3D glasses on back.

1) T-Rex standing with Brontosauruses in the background & Flying dino over/ Rear- 'Major Discoveries Made Daily, Houston Museum of Natural Science', Image of the Americas.

Retired Machines:

Retired 1: 1) T-Rex head in the square, 2) Butterfly.
Retired 2: 1) (h) Telescope, 2) (h) Haley's Comet, 3) (h) Galaxy, a4) h) Saturn
Retired 3: Four butterfly designs,
Retired 4: 1) (v) Einstein, 2) (v) Butterflies, 3) (h) Mars, 4) (h) Dinosaur (Stegosaurus)
Retired 5: 1) (v) Triceratops, 2) (h) Pterodactyl, 3) (h) T-rex, 4) (h) Velociraptor
Retired 6: 1) Octopus, 2) Squid, 3) Lanternfish, 4) Fish,
Retired 7 1) A cross, 2) 'La Vergin de Guadelupe', Roses, 3) 'Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin', standing, 4) 'Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin', kneeling.

Retired Token Machines:

Retired Token Machine 1: Brass, 1) 'Monarch Butterfly, Danaus Plexippus', 2) 1) 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' running right/ Rear of both- 'Huston Museum of Natural Science, Major Discoveries Made here Daily'

6/24/24: Machine 8 is by the information desk, token machine is about 20 feet further and machine 9 is about 20 feet further than that. All on the right hand side in main entrance causeway.
Machine 9 small.dinosaur rolling short. The machines are $1 in cash (bill) per coin or all eight for $5 with a credit card or $5 cash as well.

Machine 8




Machine 9




Token Machine 2




For Purchase Token




Pennybook




Retired 5




Retired 6




Retired 7




Retired 1




Retired 2




Retired 3




Retired Token Machine 1




Reired 4