Dallas Museum of Natural History
Dallas Museum of Natural History
The Dallas Museum of Natural History has been a Dallas institution since 1936 and has played an outstanding role in cataloging the over 280,000 specimens includes the world's largest exhibition of Texas wildlife habitats, and the first mounted Texas dinosaur in Texas.
The Dallas Museum has an outstanding educational program and has a dedicated core of naturalists, geologists, paleontologists and anthropologists, as well as 1,800 Museum members that contribute their talents to keep this one of the best Museums in the country.
The Dallas Museum has the distinction of being the only public collections-based, research driven, natural history museum. Also, the Dallas Museum of Natural History is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate museum.
This huge facility measures in at a whopping 45,000 square feet on two floors and a basement and is included in the National Register of Historic Places. The entire building is built out of native Cordova limestone - if you get close you can actually see shells and other fossils embedded within the greenish tinged limestone.
There are two gift shops available if you want to pick up some gifts or get some souvenirs from your visit to this great venue.
The Dallas Museum is open 363 days a year from 10am to 5pm, closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Days.
The exhibits include 50 dioramas of Texas wildlife each using real specimens from the Museum's collections and the museum's collection includes the following: over 200,000 items including artifacts, ecofacts, entomology, vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, malacology, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy specimens with a collective history that covers approximately 1.7 billion years of earth history.
