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Fair Park is a recreational and educational complex in Dallas, Texas, United States, located immediately east of downtown. The 277- acre (112 ha ) area is registered as a Dallas Landmark and National Historic Landmark ; many of the buildings were constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936.
On September 20, 1946, the Dallas Health Museum was founded by a group chartered as the Dallas Academy of Medicine. It was renamed the Dallas Health and Science Museum in 1958. The name was changed yet again to the Science Place in 1981. In 1995, the Dallas Children's Museum was founded elsewhere. An exterior view of the museum's main staircase
Dallas's flagship park is Fair Park. Built in 1936 for the Texas Centennial Exposition world's fair, Fair Park is the world's largest collection of Art Deco exhibit buildings, art, and sculptures; Fair Park is also home to the State Fair of Texas, the largest state fair in the United States. In November 2019, consultants presented to the public ...
The ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History is a creationist museum [1] in Dallas, Texas. Owned and operated by the Institute for Creation Research, [2] [3] the museum opened on September 2, 2019, [4] with 1,600 people visiting on its first day. [5] The museum cost $37.8 million.
Fair Park is a recreation complex in Dallas, Texas. Fair Park may also refer to: Fair Park (Tyler, Texas), former ballpark of Tyler sports. Fair Park (Childress, Texas), a city park included in Childress Commercial and Civic Historic District; Fair Park (DART station), light rail station servicing Dallas, Texas
List of museums in Dallas, Texas; A. African American Museum (Dallas) ... ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History; J. Jesuit Dallas Museum; M. Meadows Museum;
Dallas County Courthouse - Old Red Museum. The list of museums in North Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Texas Centennial Exposition was held at Fair Park in Dallas, June 6 – November 29, 1936. The event attracted 6,353,827 visitors, and cost around $ 25 million. [ 4 ] The exposition was credited for buffering Dallas from the Great Depression , creating over 10,000 jobs and giving a $50 million boost to the local economy.