SUGAR LAND (Houston Business Journal) – The Houston Museum of Natural Science has now ventured out of Houston, set to open a new museum on Oct. 3.

The new location is 13019 University Blvd., at the corner of University and New Territory Blvd., in a former prison building within the Telfair community in Sugar Land.

Four permanent galleries will be housed within the 43,000-sf building, reflecting the most popular exhibit areas of the main museum campus. The 5.5 acres surrounding the museum will play host to a variety of traveling exhibitions.

Permanent exhibitions will include Science On a Sphere and the Hall of Earth Science.