Make the most out of your field trip
Permanent Exhibit Halls
With 11 state-of-the-art permanent exhibit halls to explore, there’s no shortage of amaze-your-brain moments waiting to spark student interest in STEM subjects and careers.
Field Trip Resources
Art Infused Tour (Questions)
Art Infused Tour (Answer Key)
Secret Question Scavenger Hunt (Questions)
Secret Question Scavenger Hunt (Answer Key)
Moody Family Children's Museum
Welcome to a world where hands-on exploration meets make-believe adventure! Designed especially for children ages 5 and younger, our children’s area gives kids the opportunity to climb, create, explore and imagine.
Location: Lower Level
Note: Mondays from 10am-noon are reserved for members only. To help facilitate field trips, early learning classes may prebook the Moody Family Children’s Museum when scheduling their field trip.
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: Physics Fun, All About Bugs, Dig Those Dinos, Air and Weather
Lamar Hunt Family Sports Hall
From physics to physiology, our high-energy interactives give kids the chance to test their reflexes, throw a fastball, and try their best to outrun one of the most formidable athletes of all time — Tyrannosaurus rex!
Location: Lower Level
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: LEGO® Simple Machines: Catapult Science, Amusement Park Physics, Look Out: The Eye Dissection, Pump Up: The Heart Dissection, Superhero Science
Discovering Life Hall
Take an indoor nature walk at the Museum — where everything from single-cell organisms to ecosystems can open your mind to the power and potential of living things. Students will have the opportunity to explore the plants and animals that live in three different ecoregions of Texas and to challenge themselves to identify native plants and animals by scent or sound alone.
Location: Level 2
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: All About Bugs, Adapt to Survive, Nature Investigators
Being Human Hall
The story of YOU begins with your ancestors; it travels through your DNA; it is held in your hands; it moves as you walk; it is heard through your voice; it is written in your brain. Fulfilling a promise to keep content fresh, relevant, and exciting, the Perot Museum will reveal its first completely transformed exhibit hall since opening five years ago, the Being Human Hall. Twice as many interactive displays, and innovative content and experiments will transport your students through the human journey as they explore the traits and abilities that are essential and unique to being human.
Location: Level 2
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: ABCs of Chemistry, Look Out!:The Eye Dissection, Pump Up:The Heart Dissection, Brain Power: The Brain Dissection, DNA Fingerprinting, Superhero Science
Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall
The hall will be closed for renovations from September 6-November 10, 2019. If you have students who love solving puzzles, here’s your chance to show them how engineers use math, science, and creativity to solve everyday problems — or make groundbreaking discoveries with the power to change the way we live, work, and play. Plus, our newly expanded Robot Arena will give your students even more ways to participate in challenging robotic competitions!
Location: Level 2
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: Physics Fun, LEGO® Simple Machines: Catapult Science, Amusement Park Physics, Robotics 101
The Rees-Jones Foundation Dynamic Earth Hall
This dynamic exhibit hall puts earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other dramatic weather events in perspective, using interactive exhibits to reveal how the elements of earth, air, and water interact with each other to shape our unique environment.
Location: Level 3
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: ABCs of Chemistry, Air and Weather, Faces of the Earth, Sediments and Soils, Exploring Plate Tectonics, Cretaceous Period: Life and Extinction
Tom Hunt Energy Hall
Here, students will have the opportunity to use 3D technologies to visualize underground formations, see and touch real drill bits, and discover how renewable energies like solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric fit into the energy equation.
Location: Level 3
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: ABCs of Chemistry, Robotics 101, Physics Fun, Sediments and Soils
Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall
Your eyes will be amazed by Earth’s original rock stars as they glisten, glimmer, and glow. Explore both the practical and beautiful aspects of these complex structures that serve as the building blocks of our planet. High-definition videos, digital puzzles, and touchable specimens will help you discover the astounding variety of colors, shapes, and configurations of minerals found across the globe. Presented in English and Spanish.
Location: Level 3
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: ABCs of Chemistry, Sediments and Soils
Expanding Universe Hall
A virtual journey through the solar system helps students put outer space into perspective as they contemplate how the universe may have started.
Location: Level 4
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Lab Programs: ABCs of Chemistry, Fire and Ice
T. Boone Pickens Life Then and Now Hall
Learn about the time when Dallas was under a shallow blue sea, travel to the Cretaceous Period in Big Bend, explore ancient mammals, and learn about the Museum’s current research of Alaskan dinosaurs.
Location: Level 4
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Programs: Dig Those Dinos, Adapt to Survive, Nature Investigators, Cretaceous Period: Life and Extinction
Rose Hall of Birds
As students explore the similarities and differences of our feathered friends, they’ll have the opportunity to test, create, and name their own virtual species of bird — or use our full-body flight simulator to see how it feels to soar through the sky!
Location: Level 4M
Program Extensions
- Field Trip/On Your Campus Program: Adapt to Survive, Nature Investigators
Career Inspiration in Every Exhibit Hall
Each exhibit hall features videos from scientists and other professionals talking about their careers, and the paths they took to get there.
For more information about field trips, please contact us at 214.428.5555 ext. 8 or reserve@perotmuseum.org.
