Today, Saturday 9.16.06, local museums offer patrons FREE ADMISSION.

Here’s a list of particpating museums:

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum | Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum | The Children’s Museum of Houston | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | Holocaust Museum Houston | Center for Contemporary Craft | Houston Center for Photography | Houston Museum of Natural Science | Houston Zoo (really?) | The Jung Center of Houston | Lawndale Art Center (I love Lawndale) | The Health Museum | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Rice University Art Gallery | The Rothko Chapel

For more information visit www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org.

Then later, go see The Octopus Project at The Proletariat (which is on the edge of the museum district). How convenient. Or catch Spain Colored Orange at Walter’s on Washington.