Explore Fort Worth

The Fort Worth Water Gardens is a city park at the south end of downtown Fort Worth, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and dedicated in 1974 as a gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation. Concrete terraces frame three pools: the Quiet Pool, the Aerated Pool with its spray jets, and the Active Pool, where water runs 38 feet down stepped walls into a basin.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, founded in 1892, collects art made after the Second World War and has occupied a building by Tadao Ando in the city's Cultural District since 2002. Flat-roofed pavilions of concrete and glass stand at the edge of a large reflecting pond, and the permanent collection holds more than 3,000 works of international modern and contemporary art.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth's Cultural District grew from the collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell and opened in 1972 in a building by Louis I. Kahn, whose vaulted galleries are lit by daylight from above. A second building by Renzo Piano opened in 2013. The collection spans antiquity to the 20th century, from European painting to Asian and African art.

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden at the edge of the city's Cultural District was established in 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its grounds include a rose garden with stone pergolas, a Japanese garden with ponds and a rainforest conservatory, and it shares its site with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 in Fort Worth's Cultural District, in a building by Philip Johnson, and grew from the collection of publisher Amon G. Carter. It shows American painting, sculpture and works on paper from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Old West scenes by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, and a photography collection.

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, founded in 1975, honours women of the American West, from ranchers and rodeo riders to artists and writers. Its brick building in Fort Worth's Cultural District holds exhibitions, a research library and a collection of historic photographs, and new honorees are inducted into its hall of fame every year.

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opened in 1945 as a children's museum and moved in 2009 into a building by Legorreta + Legorreta in the city's Cultural District. It houses science and Texas history exhibits, dinosaur fossils, a gallery for young children, the Noble Planetarium and the Omni Theater, a cinema with a domed screen.

The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district north of downtown Fort Worth, grown around a livestock market that traded cattle from 1866 under various owners. Exchange Avenue is lined with brick buildings from the early 1900s, western-wear shops, saloons and the Cowtown Coliseum rodeo arena, and a herd of longhorn cattle is driven along the street twice a day.

Billy Bob's Texas is a country music nightclub in the Fort Worth Stockyards, opened in April 1981 in a large former livestock barn. Its roughly 100,000 square feet of floor space hold a concert stage where touring country artists play, dance floors, bars, the Honky Tonk Kitchen restaurant and an indoor arena that stages live bull riding.