FREE Historic Tour and Art Installation at Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern

The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a former drinking water reservoir built in 1926 for the City of Houston. BBP restored and repurposed the 87,500-square-foot Cistern into a magnificent public space for tours, performances, and art installations.

After a guided historical tour of the cistern we will step into a resonant landscape of voices and light with Undercurrents, a new interactive art installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This immersive experience transforms the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern into an echoing chamber of sound, illumination, and memory, revealing how communication travels across time, space, and human relationships.
Undercurrents invites visitors to speak, listen, and reflect as voices are carried through a glowing network of light, creating a living, ever-changing environment shaped by those who enter.

This event is FREE on the first Thursday of every month, but time slots fill fast so reserve NOW. Reserve your 12 noon Cistern tour time slot and the Undercurrents time slot for 1:00pm here: https://buffalobayou.org/location/the-cistern/#tours

We'll do a late lunch afterwards for those interested.

The Water Works Parking Lot (105-B Sabine Street): A limited amount of spaces are available in the lot and along Sabine Street (watch for signage).