Our City Expert's Tips

The Texas Medical Center is a huge complex dedicated to healing. It is known world-wide and draws visitors including heads of state from around the world.

The center attracts visitors for various reasons, including business, education, medical needs, and curiosity.

Family Time
Tour the Texas Medical Center, visit the Children's Cancer Hospital, and check out the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science. The museum has many interactive exhibits and is extremely family-friendly. They love children.

History Buff
A trip to the Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library will satisfy any medical history hunger. You'll find innumerable books from old and valuable texts of early folk medicine to today's current trends and investigations.


Gourmet / Connoisseur
Check out the new modern Italian restaurant, Trevisio, in the newly built John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons.

Artsy
Check out the M.D. Anderson Children's Art Project. What began as a simple design-your-own-Christmas-and-holiday-card project has turned into something much larger and even more special. Check the gift shop at the hospital and the Children's Art Project Boutique in the Uptown Park Shopping Center.

World Scholar
Anyone interested in medicine will want to visit the Texas Medical Center. There are so many institutions that offer a wealth of information.

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