Nonprofit hopes to rediscover beloved Science Place exhibits

DALLAS — There is no shortage of great museums to visit in DFW but aDuring the early months of the COVID pandemic, Aven Stewart and a group of friends began reminiscing about the old Science Place Museum at Fair Park, the site of many field trips for North Texas school children.

The museum started as the Dallas Health Museum way back in 1946 and changed identity a couple of times before becoming The Science Place in 1986, a name and legacy that lasted until 2007 when it merged with the Dallas Children’s Museum and Dallas Museum of Natural History, a combination that eventually became the Perot Museum in 2012.

“The Science Place Foundation started as a project between four friends and three of us are engineers because we grew up at The Science Place,” Stewart said. They have found old exhibits at antique stores, in the possession of former Science Place employees and other various hiding spots. While they continue the mission to collect as many pieces as they can, the ultimate goal is to once again have them on display somewhere at Fair Park and bring everything full circle for generations past and future.

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