Visit the two MFAH house museums—Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi—for an afternoon of free, family-friendly programs that explore the intersection of gardens and the kitchen. Park at Bayou Bend and take the complimentary shuttle between locations!

Tickets

• Admission is free during Family Day.
• Advance tickets are not required for this event.

Exhibitions on View

• George Washington: America's Enduring Icon at Bayou Bend | A look at the many ways Americans have recognized, honored, celebrated, memorialized, and appropriated the memory of George Washington.
• Midcentury Menu: Dining in the Atomic Age at Rienzi | An exploration of how convenience, technology, advertising, gender, and labor converged to redefine the meaning of food in postwar America.

Activity Highlights at Bayou Bend | "Early American Gardens"

• 1 pm to 5 pm | Art activities
• 1 pm to 5 pm | Children’s activities in the house hosted by Houston Junior Woman’s Club
• 1:30 pm & 3 pm | AFA Chamber Music Academy performance
• 2 pm | “Building Community in Houston” | Remarks and book signing by author Kate Kirkland at Kilroy Center Book available for purchase from Texas A&M University Press
• 2 pm to 3 pm; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | 1800s baseball skills exhibition hosted by SABR Houston

Activity Highlights at Rienzi | "Farm to Table"

• 1 pm to 5 pm | Art activities
• 1 pm to 5 pm | Scavenger hunt
• 2:30 pm | Spotlight talk on Midcentury Menu: Dining in the Atomic Age
• 3:30 pm | Gardening demonstration

Bayou Bend is the MFAH house museum for American decorative arts. Rienzi is the MFAH house museum for European decorative arts.