Houston

The Health Museum

Houston, Texas
The Health Museum
March 7, 2026 - September 13, 2026
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“The Journey to End Cancer: From Cause to Cure” Exhibition at The Health Museum

New Interactive Cancer Exhibition to Premiere at The Health Museum

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In an immersive media experience, “Love Your Cells” introduces visitors to the amazing work cells perform to keep bodies healthy and active. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Love Your Cells

Guests play a pattern-copying game that demonstrates how some DNA changes leading to cancer result from “copy and paste” errors when cells replicate. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Mistakes Happen

“Rogue Cells,” an entertaining 90-second animated cartoon, shows visitors how a healthy cell can develop changes to its DNA “instruction book.” DNA changes cause the cell to stop obeying healthy cell rules, making it multiply out of control and leading to cancer. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Rogue Cells

Visitors become “cancer detectives” in a hunt to unmask or rule out hidden cancers. Would-be sleuths apply screening and evaluation tools to different tissues. The interactive highlights the importance of routine screenings and paying attention to unusual symptoms. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Cancer Detective

Visitors become “cancer detectives” in a hunt to unmask or rule out hidden cancers. Would-be sleuths apply screening and evaluation tools to different tissues. The interactive highlights the importance of routine screenings and paying attention to unusual symptoms. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Cancer Detective

In “Polyp Pursuit,” visitors perform a virtual colonoscopy to locate, snare and remove polyps, tiny growths that can become cancerous if left unchecked. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Polyp Pursuit

In “Polyp Pursuit,” visitors perform a virtual colonoscopy to locate, snare and remove polyps, tiny growths that can become cancerous if left unchecked. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Polyp Pursuit

Guests step into one of the exhibition’s three story pods. Here, visitors learn how treatment is deeply personal, yet never a solo journey. Each powerful video shares stories from survivors, their families, doctors and nurses, and behind-the-scenes staff – highlighting collaborations and celebrating those who play a role. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

In It Together

Guests step into one of the exhibition’s three story pods. Here, visitors learn how treatment is deeply personal, yet never a solo journey. Each powerful video shares stories from survivors, their families, doctors and nurses, and behind-the-scenes staff – highlighting collaborations and celebrating those who play a role. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

In It Together

“Super Cells” is a challenging game that introduces immunotherapy, as visitors supercharge a body’s superhero T cells to better seek and destroy “rogue” (cancer) cells. Collecting T cell inhibitors with x-ray vision unleashes T cells on a mission of rogue-cell destruction. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Super Cells

“Super Cells” is a challenging game that introduces immunotherapy, as visitors supercharge a body’s superhero T cells to better seek and destroy “rogue” (cancer) cells. Collecting T cell inhibitors with x-ray vision unleashes T cells on a mission of rogue-cell destruction. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Super Cells

A time-travel interactive adventure takes visitors through cancer treatment breakthroughs and advances from ancient times to the ever-improving “five pillars”: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Breakthrough!

Defeating cancer takes everyone working together. “The Power of Us” creates a fun, multiplayer experience to demonstrate how powerful this movement can be when joining forces. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

The Power of Us

Visitors play a game where everyday choices from childhood to age 101 can help lower one’s lifetime cancer risk. Along the way, they encounter “chance” cards, highlighting how factors like inherited cancer risk or living in a “health care desert” can be out of their control. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Risky Business

Visitors play a game where everyday choices from childhood to age 101 can help lower one’s lifetime cancer risk. Along the way, they encounter “chance” cards, highlighting how factors like inherited cancer risk or living in a “health care desert” can be out of their control. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Risky Business

Visitors to “Gut Check” design fiber-rich meals to support helpful gut microbes that can boost health, make cancer treatments more effective and potentially lower risk. Visitors learn how maintaining a thriving gut microbiome affects health in ways scientists are only starting to understand. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Gut Check

Visitors to “Gut Check” design fiber-rich meals to support helpful gut microbes that can boost health, make cancer treatments more effective and potentially lower risk. Visitors learn how maintaining a thriving gut microbiome affects health in ways scientists are only starting to understand. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Gut Check

The exhibition culminates in an empowering finale, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s interactive “Strikethrough Cancer” wall, where visitors can share messages or cheer on loved ones. A kiosk also provides information and trusted resources for visitors to help continue their learning journey. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Cancer Strikethrough

The exhibition culminates in an empowering finale, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s interactive “Strikethrough Cancer” wall, where visitors can share messages or cheer on loved ones. A kiosk also provides information and trusted resources for visitors to help continue their learning journey. (Photo: The Journey to End Cancer)

Cancer Strikethrough

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