Would you like to experience what it's like to walk through a 180,000 square foot science project? Good news, I bring to you! The Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened its doors to Dallas in December 2012 with interactive exhibits and a ton of amazing, wonderful, science facts. As a visitor of the museum, you can tell that an immense amount of thought and creativity went into, not only the architecture, but also the artistic presentation of science.
You don't spend nearly $100 million (construction alone) on a building without it being pretty much one of the most beautiful additions to the Dallas architectural landscape.
My fusband (fake/future-husband) and I went to visit the museum last weekend and, oh boy; we felt right at home with all the kiddies running around from exhibit to exhibit. I felt like I had traveled back in time to when I presented a science project at my school's science fair; except this time I wasn't nervous and my palms were less sweaty.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is unique in that it offers its visitor's an interactive experience with science and encourages the museum goers to explore and absorb everything around them. They even welcome photography. Let me tell you, my inner nerd and photographer (however amateur) went ballistic in this place.
As I walked through the museum I realized how important art is for science and vice versa. They have both taken a few pages out of each other's book for their own use and purpose. Without casting, as we can see in the two images above, where would sculpture be? Without architecture, how would we house knowledge, just as the Perot is doing?
This massive building encompasses every branch of natural science that you can think of, covering all the bases of curiosity. There is no need for parents to worry about their children being too rowdy, or boyfriends worrying about their girlfriends being too rambunctious (I wasn't lying about inner nerd). Virtually everything in the museum is meant to be touched and experimented with.
This museum is definitely fun for kids and adults. It does a great job of getting the visitors excited about science and exploring the expanse of knowledge provided. This "science project" as I've described it is not only interactive, but thoughtfully structured and wonderful to look at. So, well done and A+ to all of those who envisioned The Perot.
Did The Perot get a passing grade from my readers? I would like to know how you all rated the Museum and others like it around the city. What other science centers don't we know about?
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