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Dallas Museum of Art

Nasher Sculpture Center

Crow Collection of Asian Art

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science

The AT&T Performing Arts Center:

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre

City Performance Hall

Annette Strauss Artist Square

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Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Kimbell Art Museum & Renzo Piano Pavilion

Darnell Street Auditorium

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Casa Mañana

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

Fort Worth Community Arts Center

W.E. Scott Theatre

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ARTS, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENTDallas-Fort Worth has not one but two major arts districts.

The Dallas Arts District, which is anchored by the Dallas Museum of Art, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and AT&T Performing Arts Center, is nearly 70 acres—the largest urban arts district in the country. Here you can catch a performance of Texas Ballet Theater, a Broadway touring production, classical or local musicians, a night of live storytelling, TED talks, movies and music under the stars, festivals, art exhibits, and so much more. We’d be willing to bet you could spend every weekend in our Arts District and never run out of new things to do.

The Fort Worth Cultural District claims fi ve internationally recognized museums, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and The Modern.

Beyond our fantastic cultural centers, DFW is home to hundreds of smaller museums and public galleries; scores of professional and community theaters; and dozens of local symphony and chamber orchestras, dance troupes, and opera associations. DFW is Texas’ most arts intensive metro area on a per capita basis—meaning we spend a lot of money per person on cultural arts. No matter what artistic pursuits you enjoy, you can fi nd them here.

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Ballet Folklorico Bass Performance HallCasa MañanaCharles W. Eisemann CenterCircle TheatreCity of Dallas Performance HallDallas Black Dance Theatre Dallas Children’s TheaterDallas Summer Musicals The Dee and Charles Wyly TheatreGrapevine OpryIrving Arts CenterKalita Humphreys TheaterLatino Cultural CenterMajestic TheaterThe Margot and Bill Winspear Opera HouseMorton H. Meyerson Symphony CenterThe Patty Granville Arts CenterTexas Ballet Theater

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African American Museum

Amon Carter Museum

Cavanaugh Flight Museum

The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park

Dallas Heritage Village

Dallas Holocaust Museum

Dallas Museum of Art

Fair Park

Fort Worth Museum of Science & History

Frontiers of Flight Museum

Heritage Farmstead

International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame

Kimbell Art Museum

The Meadows Museum

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Museum of the American Railroads

Nasher Sculpture Center

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

National Scouting Museum

Perot Museum of Nature & Science

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza

The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art

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The fun here knows no bounds. You could start with the 75-acre master-planned development that is Victory Park—packed with trendy shops and restaurants; the House of Blues and Hard Rock Cafe; The W Hotel, with the famous Ghostbar; and American Airlines Center, home of the Mavericks and the Stars, as well as concert venue extraordinaire—and move on to McKinney Avenue, which teems at night with hordes of pretty people going from hot spot to hot spot all

the way from The Rattlesnake Bar at The Ritz to The Magnolia Theater at the West Village.

For something a little more laid-back (but no less entertaining), you could hit Greenville Avenue for its funky shops, rooftop bars, and live music at the historic Granada Theater; or you could bop around Bishop Arts, Oak Cliff ’s repository of everything cool and home to some of Dallas’ most sought-after restaurants (Lucia, Stock & Barrel, Oddfellow s, to

name just a very few) and bars. The suburbs have more than their fair share of things to do, too. Plano’s Shops at Legacy brims with boutique shopping, best-in-class restaurants and bars, and the Angelika Film Center; while Frisco Square has Cinemark Next Gen-XD Theater, Toyota Stadium, and amenities such as the Black Box Theatre at Frisco Discovery Center. But we’re only scratching the surface here; there’s so much more to explore.

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5 Downtown Dallas

6 The West End

7 South Side

8 Deep Ellum

9 Uptown

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11 Knox-Henderson

12 Highland Park Village

13 Mockingbird Station

14 Greenville Avenue

15 North Park / Park Lane

16 Galleria

17 Firewheel Town Center

18 The Harbor at Rockwall and Rockwall Commons

19 Uptown Village

20 Arlington Highlands / The Parks

21 Downtown Arlington

22 Arlington Entertainment District

23 Sundance Square

24 Fort Worth Cultural District

25 West Seventh Street District

26 Historic Stockyards

27 Southlake Town Square

28 Historic Downtown Grapevine

29 Parker Square

30 Historic Downtown Denton

31 Frisco Square

32 Stonebriar Centre

33 Legacy Town Center

34 Watters Creek

35 Addison Circle / Beltline Road

36 Old Downtown Carrollton

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