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.

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