Museum

Fort Worth Museum of Science & History

Fort Worth · Tarrant County · Dedicated 1941 · THC Atlas #4200000154

Texas history, up close and curated.

About this site

Fort Worth Museum of Science & History is a museum in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, dedicated in 1941. It is one of 22 museums documented in Tarrant County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 491 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.7445, -97.3691 near Fort Worth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cattle Raisers Museum (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include National Cowgirl Hall of Fame Museum, Hinckley, Herbert M., and Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000154. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History began as the Fort Worth Children's Museum, chartered with the State of Texas in 1941 and opened in 1945 in two rooms of the De Zavala Elementary School in the Fairmount neighborhood. It moved to its present site in the city's Cultural District in 1954 and was renamed the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in 1968 to broaden its appeal to adults. The addition of the Omni Theater in 1983 brought the Southwest's first IMAX dome theater, and in 2009 the museum reopened in a new 166,000-square-foot building designed by the Mexican firm Legorreta + Legorreta with Gideon Toal.

Sources: fwmuseum.org en.wikipedia.org fortworth.com

📍 32.7445, -97.3691 · Fort Worth, Tarrant County

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