Traveling and permanent exhibits, 100,000 artifacts and
specimens, the Omni Theater showing IMAX® films, and the Noble
Planetarium
offer an extraordinary learning environment with plenty of
hands-on fun.
Permanent exhibits include KIDSPACE®, DinoDig®, Lone Star
Dinosaurs, Hands on Science, and ExploraZone®. KIDSPACE is an
indoor discovery area designed for children age six and under and
their favorite adults. Through activities such as KidFish dock,
Water Works, and Build-a-House, children learn science by doing.
DinoDig allows visitors to become amateur paleontologists and dig
for dinosaur bones and fossils in a large outdoor discovery area.
Three dig areas; bones range in size from a four-inch vertebra of a
Tenontosaurus to a six-foot leg bone of a large sauropod.
The Omni Theater's curved screen engulfs viewers' entire field
of vision to plunge into remote caves, soar through clouds, or
visit some of the world's greatest places in big-screen glory.
Astronomy programs are presented in the Noble Planetarium. For
information and schedule for the Omni Theater and Noble
Planetarium, call 817/255-9300. Shows are presented regularly;
during school year, theater and planetarium periodically closed to
public for schoolchildren.
Weekday and weekend classes are offered at Museum School®
throughout the school year. Weekday classes offered in the
summer.
Construction slated to begin in 2007 on new facility, so
call ahead for availability. Wheelchair accessible. In the
Cultural District. Admission fee.