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The Sixth Floor Museum is in the former Texas School Book Depository, a 1901 brick warehouse on Dealey Plaza in Dallas, from whose sixth floor President John F. Kennedy was shot on 22 November 1963. Opened in 1989, its main exhibition uses films, photographs and objects to document his presidency, the assassination and the investigations that followed.

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a natural history and science museum in Victory Park, Dallas, named after Margot and Ross Perot and opened here in December 2012. Thom Mayne of Morphosis designed the building as a large cube over a planted base, with an escalator in a glass tube outside; it has 11 permanent exhibit halls, including a children's museum.

The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum in the Dallas Arts District, housed since 1984 in a limestone building by Edward Larrabee Barnes after the museum left Fair Park. Its collection of more than 24,000 objects runs from the third millennium BC to the present day, and its research library holds over 50,000 volumes.

The Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum of modern and contemporary sculpture in the Dallas Arts District, opened in 2003 next to the Dallas Museum of Art. Renzo Piano designed its stone and glass galleries and Peter Walker the garden; the Raymond and Patsy Nasher collection includes works by Rodin, Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti, Calder and Henry Moore.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center holds the library and museum of George W. Bush, the 43rd US president, on the Southern Methodist University campus in University Park, within Dallas. Opened in 2013, the museum has a replica Oval Office, an exhibit on 11 September 2001 and the Decision Points Theater, beside a 15-acre native Texas park.