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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 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 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.
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.
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