General, History, Historic House, Historical Society

Housed in a restored 1926 two-story brick hotel named for being the nicest hotel between Dallas and El Paso, the museum features home furnishings, pioneer tools. and ranch and farm equipment from the early days of settlement. Also on exhibit is work by local artists.

Culture, General, History, Historic House, Library

The museum is housed in an old brick schoolhouse that has a charm and history itself. The displays are artfully created to reflect a phase of the Pioneer's life, showing a kitchen, parlor, office, chapel, general store, schoolroom, miniatre hand-carved circus, and temporary displays of period fashions, quilts etc. changed once or twice a year. The outside area contains a jail cell, half dugout, Santa Fe caboose, farm implements and a wagon barn containig various wagons. We offer trunk programs that can be taken into the schools, club and social meetings or summer programs. Our plans are to put together additional trunk programs to offer more variety of educational and entertaining history about our local area.

Children's, General, Science

The Discovery Center has recently expand to include an additional 16,000 square feet of exhibit space including a helium area, weather center and a extensive marine biology area. The Discovery Center is also looking to the future with new permanent exhibits including: Simple Machines (an interactive look at how simple machine help make work eaiser) and the Hall of Inventors which looks at a variety of men and women who have made significant scientific contributions.

In additon to the new exhibit space there is a 100-seat auditorium and 4,000 square foot party room, Celebration Station available for receptions, banquets and parties. The existing planterium and exhibit hall are still a focal point of the Discovery Center.

Children's, General, History, Natural History, Nature Centers, Science

It is the missin of the Dallas Public Schools Environmental Education Center to interpret, preserve, protect and share informqation regarding the natural history and ecology of north Texas for the students and teachers of the Dallas Schools, and the families and residents of north Texas.

Culture, General, History, Historic House, Park

Groups are encouraged to schedule ahead of the requested date. The months of October, November and early December, March, April, and May are especially busy, so we encourage you to plan ahead so that we can schedule the requested time. For example, many schools now make their requests in September for much later in the school year.