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Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a museum in Dallas, TX, part of the Dallas–Fort Worth guide. Cost: under $25.

2201 N Field St · Dallas, TX

Why you should go…

The museum's eleven permanent halls cover everything from dinosaur fossils to space exploration and human biology, most of it interactive. Its escalator, cantilevered through a glass tube on the building's exterior, is a landmark in its own right.

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What's around here?

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