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   Dallas Museum of Art

   A museum in the downtown Arts District holding about 24,000 works, with strong pre-Columbian, African and Latin American collections. General admission has been free since 1997, and the 1984 Edward Larrabee Barnes building runs a full city block.

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   George W. Bush Presidential Center

   The presidential centre of George W. Bush, opened on 25 April 2013 on the Southern Methodist University campus, holding the library, museum and policy institute. A steel beam from the World Trade Center and a full-scale Oval Office are the fixed points of the exhibition.

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   Reunion Tower

   An observation tower of 1978 in downtown Dallas, a hundred and seventy-one metres high and topped by a lattice ball lit at night. The deck inside gives a full circle over the city and the plain around it.

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   Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

   A museum on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, from whose corner window Kennedy was shot on 22 November 1963. The window itself is enclosed and left as it was found; Dealey Plaza below is unchanged, which is what unsettles most visitors.

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   Meadows Museum

   A museum on the SMU campus holding the largest and broadest collection of Spanish art outside Spain — Velázquez, Goya, Murillo, Picasso — assembled by the oilman Algur Meadows. It is nicknamed the Prado on the Prairie.

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   Dallas Zoo

   A 43-hectare zoo five kilometres south of downtown in Marsalis Park, opened in 1888 and the oldest in Texas. Its Giants of the Savanna exhibit puts elephants and giraffes in one mixed enclosure, which few zoos attempt.

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   Nasher Sculpture Center

   A sculpture museum of 2003 by Renzo Piano in the Arts District, built around the collection Raymond and Patsy Nasher assembled — Rodin, Matisse, Giacometti, Serra. Its glass roof of cast-aluminium sunscreens lets in northern light only, and the garden is as much of it as the galleries.

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   Dallas Texas Temple

   A Latter-day Saints temple in Dallas, dedicated in 1984, the thirtieth in the church. It has white marble walls and a single spire; only members in good standing enter beyond the lobby.

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   Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe

   The Catholic cathedral of Dallas, built in 1902 and dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, serving one of the largest Hispanic congregations in the United States — around eleven thousand people attend on a Sunday. It stands in the Arts District.

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    Arts District

    At 118 acres, the largest contiguous arts district in the United States, running between Ross Avenue and the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Meyerson Symphony Center and the Winspear Opera House all stand within it.

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   Deep Ellum

   A district just east of downtown, whose name comes from a local pronunciation of Elm Street, and where Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson recorded in the 1920s. It went derelict, then became the city's live music and mural quarter.

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   John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

   A memorial to Kennedy of 1970 in the West End, designed by Philip Johnson as a roofless concrete cenotaph nine metres square standing on eight legs, with a plain slab bearing the president's name inside. Johnson called it a place for the individual to be alone with a memory.

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   Perot Museum of Nature and Science

   A natural history and science museum of 2012 in Victory Park, a cube on a plinth by Thom Mayne with an exterior escalator running up one face. Its Alamosaurus and the Texas fossil halls are the strengths, and it replaced two older institutions.

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   Dallas World Aquarium

   A privately run aquarium and zoo in the West End, built as an indoor rainforest with walkways at canopy level so that birds, sloths and monkeys are seen among the trees before the tanks. A tunnel runs through a Caribbean reef tank at the bottom.

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   First Baptist Church

   A Baptist megachurch downtown, founded in 1868 and one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 1890 sanctuary stands among a 2013 campus. Its pastors have been prominent in American conservative politics for a century.

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   Thanks-Giving Square

   A small sunken park downtown built in 1976, whose spiral chapel by Philip Johnson holds the Glory Window — sixty stained-glass panels spiralling up the ceiling, among the largest horizontally mounted stained glass in the world.

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   Frontiers of Flight Museum

   An aerospace museum at Love Field, founded in 1988, holding about forty aircraft and the Apollo 7 command module. The Southwest Airlines and Braniff collections cover the airline history that Dallas grew on.

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   Dallas County Courthouse

   The county courthouse of 1892 in red Pecos sandstone with grey marble trim, known as Old Red, at 100 South Houston Street. It served as the courthouse until 1966 and now holds the county history museum, a block from Dealey Plaza.

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   Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

   A 27-hectare garden on the southeastern shore of White Rock Lake, opened in 1984, best known for Dallas Blooms — half a million tulips and daffodils planted for spring. A children's adventure garden and a restored 1930s house are in the grounds.

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    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

    A museum in the West End on the Holocaust and human rights, rehoused in 2019, which sets the European genocide alongside American segregation and the Native American experience as one continuous subject. A German boxcar of the period stands in the entrance hall.

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