Travel Reference
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( 214-565-9026;
www.aamdallas.org
; 3536 Grand Ave; admission free, tours $5; 11am-5pm Tue-Sat, 1-5pm
Sun)
This museum has exhibits of more than 1000 objects that richly detail the art
and history of African American people from precolonial Africa through the present. Its
folk-art collection is one of the best nationwide.
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Elsewhere in Dallas
George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum
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MUSEUM
( 214-346-1557;
www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu
;
2943 SMU Blvd; adult/child $16/10; 9am-5pm Mon-Sat,
noon-5pm Sun; light rail Mockingbird station)
Opened on the campus of Southern Methodist
University (SMU) in 2013 at a cost of over $300 million, this vast facility documents the
presidency of George W Bush. Like other presidential libraries it has two missions: to al-
low research and to present a record of the president to the public. Exhibits include all
manner of gifts Bush received while president.
Its most interactive feature is the Decision Points Theater, which allows you to see how
Bush made decisions around events such as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. The approach is
genial throughout. Although Bush had no connection to SMU, the university outbid others
to host the facility. (Bush's father George HW Bush went through the same process when
he located his presidential library at Texas A&M, a school where he had no previous con-
nection.)
It's close to the DART Mockingbird station.
Meadows Museum
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MUSEUM
( 214-768-2516;
www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org
;
5900 Bishop Blvd; adult/child $10/4; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat,
to 9pm Thu, noon-5pm Sun; light rail Mockingbird Station)
Located on the Southern Methodist
University campus, this museum exhibits perhaps the best and most comprehensive col-
lection of Spanish art outside of Spain, including masterpieces by Velázquez, El Greco,
Goya, Picasso and Miró.
Dallas Zoo
ZOO
