100,000 artifacts and specimens for research, exhibition. Traveling exhibits, and permanent areas that include Man and His Possessions, Human Physiology, History of Medicine, Calculators and Computers, Geology and Paleontology, and Texas History.
Astronomy programs are presented in the Noble Planetarium. For information and schedule for Omni Theater and Noble Planetarium call 817/732-1631. Shows are presented regularly; during school year, theater and planetarium periodically closed to public for schoolchildren.
DinoDig allows visitors to the museum to become amateur paleontologists and dig for dinosaur bones in large outdoor discovery area. Three dig areas; bones range in size from a four inch vertebra of a Tenontosarus to a six foot leg bone of a large sauropod.
KIDSPACE is an indoor discovery area designed for young museum visitors age two to six years. Through activities such as Puppet Theater, Water Works, and Build-a-House, children learn about science by doing.
Omni Theater's curved screen engulfs viewers' entire field of vision to plunge beneath ocean, soar through clouds, or possibly witness the awesome launch of a space shuttle; 50 varying shows a week.
