Welcome, little explorers

Moody Family

Children's Museum

Good for

Early Childhood

Location

Lower Level

 

We’re excited to announce a major transformation of the Moody Family Children’s Museum coming May 2025, enhancing one of our most treasured spaces for families and children. The current Children’s Museum will close for renovations in early January 2025. During the closure, popular activities from the existing Children’s Museum will be available for visitors on the Museum’s Lower Level beginning in mid-January 2025.

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A boy and his dad looking in an exhibit window.

Nature Exploration

Make your way into the great outdoors inside our indoor Trinity River corridor. Become a junior wildlife biologist as you discover the flora and fauna with our terrarium animals, including a frog, a toad, an anole, a turtle, spiders and even a snake!

Children working at a table to create some fun artwork.

Art Lab

Get hands-on with art and science! Discover the world through color and texture, explorations of nature and more.

Children's hands digging in sand to explore a discovery.

Dino Dig

Explore the outdoor dig pit inspired by real fossil digs from Big Bend. Grab a vest, scoop, shovel and rake and join our team of junior paleontologists!

A young child smiling while looking out of a door.

Dallas Discovery

Dallas is waiting for you! Climb up, down and all around a kid-sized version of our very own city skyline.

A young boy trying to reach some food.

Farmers Market

Head to the biggest little farmers market in town. Use your imagination as you wear the hat of a vendor, shopper or delivery person as you play and explore.

Nature Exploration

Art Lab

Dino Dig

Dallas Discovery

Farmers Market

Children’s Museum Scavenger Hunt

  • Visit the Dino Dig outside! What can you find buried under the sand?
  • Find Reunion Tower in our mini Dallas skyline. What shape is the top?
  • Find the many live critters in this hall. Do you have a favorite animal?

What to Do Next

Get ready for big dinosaur adventures and discoveries. Head up to the T. Boone Pickens Life Then and Now Hall on Level 4 to gaze up at ancient fossils and discover all about evolution and how it works.

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A view of the The gargantuan fossil skeletons of T. rex and Alamosaurus.

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