Pin itPerot Museum of Nature and Science
Eleven exhibit halls inside a Thom Mayne building that treats science as spectacle without sacrificing substance.
- Duration
- 2-3 hours
- Cost
- $20-$25
- Type
- Cultural
- What stands out
- Eleven exhibit halls inside a Thom Mayne building that treats science as spectacle without sacrificing substance.
$20-$25
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The Perot Museum of Nature and Science fills a 180,000-square-foot Thom Mayne building in downtown Dallas, with eleven permanent exhibit halls covering dinosaurs, gems and minerals, space, engineering, human anatomy, and Texas ecosystems.
The experience
The building itself is part of the visit: a cantilevered concrete form wrapped in glass, set on a landscaped plaza that slopes you up to the entrance. Inside, the scale is large enough to fill two to three hours without rushing, and the exhibit design holds adult attention as well as it does children's. The Tom Hunt Energy Hall uses mechanical demonstrations to explain oil and gas extraction. The Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall holds specimens that would anchor any natural history collection in the country. The dinosaur hall centres on an Alamosaurus skeleton, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found in North America. Rotating special exhibitions and 3D films supplement the permanent halls.
Logistics
Adults $25, youth ages 2 to 12 $15. Special exhibitions cost extra. Open Monday and Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Tuesdays. Located in downtown Dallas, about 35 minutes south of PGA Frisco.