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Listening Vessels in Discovery Green

by Jill Jarvis 4 Comments

James in Listening Vessel at Discovery Green

Discovery Green 1500 McKinney, Houston, Texas, 77010
Appropriate for Any Age
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The Listening Vessels in Downtown’s Discovery Green may be one of the coolest things in Houston. These 2 limestone sculptures have concave interiors that focus sound waves. You can sit in 1 vessel and be heard in the 2nd vessel that is 70 feet away.

These Listening Vessels are tucked away in the Wortham Foundation Gardens in Discovery Green. If you are at the playground or the stage, you may not even know they are there. If you walk over towards the Hilton, you will find these waiting to amaze you.

Listening Vessels and George R Brown
The BigKidSmallCity crew set out to find these on a Saturday afternoon. We took METRORail to the Main Street Square Station and walked the 5 blocks east(ish) to Discovery Green. The park was so crowded that we completely bypassed the playground and lawn. To our surprise, when we got to the secluded garden on the south side of the park, we had it all to ourselves. Not too many people venture here, but they should.

The kids sat on the little seats in the vessels and amused themselves for quite a long time. You can really speak in a normal voice on 1 side and be heard clearly 70 feet away. This unexpected part of Discovery Green made our day.

 Before heading home we walked past the METRORail tracks to visit another unexpected attraction in Downtown Houston, the Big Bubble in Buffalo Bayou.

Filed Under: All, Discovery Green, Things to do February 21, 2013

About Jill Jarvis

Jill Jarvis is the owner of JillBJarvis.com, a BigKidSmallCity.com and Things to Do in Houston, with Kids, blog!

She is the mom of 4 and started the website years ago... when she was tired of constantly cleaning up the same mess in the family room.

Another mom showed her that you could just go do fun things in Houston, without hours of planning.

This inspired the blog and changed everything about how she enjoyed life in Houston, with kids!

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  1. Tiffany says

    February 21, 2013 at 5:04 pm

    Cool!

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  2. Clay says

    February 21, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    That’s very cool. A few years ago we were in a restaurant booth in Rice Village that had the same effect. It sounded like someone was talking right in my ear, and it took me forever to figure out that it was coming from a table on the other side of the restaurant! No one would believe me until I made them sit in my spot for a while.

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    • Jill says

      February 21, 2013 at 6:44 pm

      I should find that restaurant and add it to our “favorites” list. 🙂

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      • Clay says

        February 21, 2013 at 6:49 pm

        That was at Two Rows, which is closed now. I’m not sure what’s there now (upstairs, across from Kubo’s), but maybe that corner booth still has the eavesdropping effect.

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