Welcome, little explorers
Moody Family
Children's Museum
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 beginning January 7, 2025. During the closure, popular activities from the existing Children’s Museum will be available for visitors on the Museum’s Lower Level beginning January 18.
Click below to learn more about the transformation!
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!
Art Lab
Get hands-on with art and science! Discover the world through color and texture, explorations of nature and more.
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!
Dallas Discovery
Dallas is waiting for you! Climb up, down and all around a kid-sized version of our very own city skyline.
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.
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.
