Cistern Illuminated

Fri Nov 28, 2025 - Sun Jan 18, 2026
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Repeating every week — Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through January 18, 2026
Except December 24, 2025, December 25, 2025, January 1, 2026.
Also on December 22, 2025, December 23, 2025, December 29, 2025, December 30, 2025.
Various times
Age: Ages 9+
Price: $15
Location:
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
105-B Sabine Street, Houston, TX, 77007
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Take a luminous journey through light and sound this holiday season with Cistern Illuminated. This multi-sensory art experience transforms the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern into a transcendent spectacle of color, echo, and optical illusion. 

Designed by artist/engineer Kelly O’Brien, Cistern Illuminated complements and enhances the unique acoustic and reflective qualities of this infrastructural relic with vivid, shifting hues of light and an ethereal soundscape. 

On view: November 28, 2025 - January 18, 2026

Times

  • Wednesday - Thursday 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 5pm
  • Saturday - Sunday 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 5pm

Children ages 9+ only.

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.