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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 is now closed for renovations. During the closure, popular activities from the existing Children’s Museum are available for visitors on the Museum’s Lower Level.

Click below to learn more about the transformation!

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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!

Nature Exploration

Art Lab

Dino Dig

Dallas Discovery

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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