Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Museum is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
ADDRESS 411 Elm
(Northwest corner of Elm and Houston Streets) Dallas, TX 75202 (214) 747-6660
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HOURS Monday: Noon – 6 pm
Tuesdays – Sundays: 10 am – 6 pm ADMISSION
The Admission Fee includes a multi- media audio guide of the permanent exhibition.
The audio guide is offered in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin (Chinese) and a youth version (English only). An American Sign Language (ASL) version is also available for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors.
The museum offers a cell phone walking tour of Dealey Plaza, important assassi- nation sites and the Kennedy Memorial. Available at admissions and both muse- um stores, the walking tour features a narrated guide and illustrated map that can be purchased with, or separately from, museum admission.
Discounts are offered to groups of 20 or more people when booked in advance.
VISIT DALLAS
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The site t 5IF .VTFVN JT IPVTFE PO UIF TJYUI BOE TFWFOUI floors of the former Texas School Book Depository. Constructed in 1901, the structure is now known as the Dallas County Administration Building.
t %FBMFZ 1MB[B B DJUZ QBSL CVJMU JO the 1930s as a vehicular gateway to downtown Dallas, is adjacent to the museum building. The Plaza is where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade traveled
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TIME TRAVEL: The museum’s exhibition area uses historic films, photographs, artifacts and interpretive displays to document the events of the assassination, the reports by government investigations that followed, and the historical legacy of the national tragedy.
of artifacts, documents, audio and visual record- ings and other documentation of the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy, with supplementary collections focused on the social history of mid–20th century Dallas both before and after the assassination, the cultural history of the assassination, and the history of Dealey Plaza, the Texas School Book Depository and the John F. Kennedy Memorial.
t 5IF DPMMFDUJPO JODMVEFT UISFF EJNFOTJPOBM BSUJ- facts, manuscripts, photographic materials, historic film and video, works of art on paper, newspapers, magazines, news stories, oral histories and maps.
t 4QFDJBM FYIJCJUJPOT FWFOUT BOE QVCMJD QSPHSBNT are held in the seventh floor gallery.
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