Art Car Museum
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Art Car Museum is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. Oak Hill stands 29 m to the west-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Arcadia, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Independence Trail passes 6.3 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Art Car Museum is a private museum of contemporary art located in Houston, Texas, United States. The museum, nicknamed the "Garage Mahal," opened in February, 1998. Its emphasis is on art cars, fine arts, and artists that are rarely seen in other cultural institutions. The museum's mission is to elevate awareness of the political, economic, and personal dimensions of art. The museum was founded by Ann Harithas, artist and long-time supporter of the Art Car movement, and James Harithas, former director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and late director of the Station Museum, Houston, Texas. The museum showroom celebrates the spirit of this post-modern age of car-culture, in which artists have remolded stock cars to the specifications of their own idiosyncratic images and visions. The museum features elaborate art cars, lowriders, and mobile contraptions, as well as organizing a number of temporary exhibitions by local, national, and international artists, some accompanied by catalogs, such as a retrospective of the social/political, pointillist paintings by Houston artist Ron Hoover (1944-2008) held in 2010. and a survey of the work of artist John Atlas in 2014. The museum is scheduled to re-open in The Orange Show. Previously it was located at 140 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX 77007, which began operations in 1998. The Houston Heights location closed in April 2024.
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Dates from 1988.
Wikidata Q4796649, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Arcadia: 0.0 mi
- Pueblo Bonito: 0.4 mi
- The Blue Trees: 0.5 mi
- We Love Houston: 0.5 mi
- Banana Dolphin: 0.7 mi
- Olivewood Cemetery: 0.3 mi
- Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church: 0.3 mi
- Damascus Missionary Baptist Church: 0.3 mi
- Houston Heights: 0.4 mi
- Houston Heights: 0.4 mi
- Knox Park: 0.4 mi
- Spotts Park: 0.5 mi
- West End Park: 0.6 mi
- Bayou Greenways Park: 0.7 mi
- Cleveland Park: 0.7 mi
- Stream Garden: 0.9 mi
- MMSC Urban Garden: 1.4 mi
- Butterfly garden: 1.9 mi
- River Oaks Garden Club: 2.4 mi
- Devon Energy Global Garden: 2.5 mi
- Museum of Printing History: 1.1 mi
- Rutherford B. H. Yates Museum: 1.5 mi
- Rienzi: 1.6 mi
- Rienzi: 1.6 mi
- Gallery 1208: 1.6 mi
- 'Burp the Bayou' Red Button: 1.9 mi
- Wetland Boardwalk: 2.1 mi
- Boardwalk Overlook: 2.1 mi
- Copper Statue: 3.1 mi
- Eco Station: 3.5 mi
- Picnic Area 1: 2.0 mi
- Picnic Area 2: 2.1 mi
- Picnic Area 3: 2.1 mi
- Picnic Area 4: 2.1 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 2.5 mi
- Hogg Bird Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 4.4 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 4.6 mi
- Wortham Island Reserve: 4.8 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 7.6 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 1.1 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 1.5 mi
- Oak Hill: 22.6 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 23.1 mi
- Cinco Ranch Beach Club: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Art Car Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill | WSW 251° | 29 m | 22.6 mi |
| Blackwell Peninsula | E 100° | 3 m | 23.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:51 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:48 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:51 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 58 | 64 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 85 | 86 | 81 | 72 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 7.9 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston-port, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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