Museum of Nature and Science

The Dallas Museum of Natural History operated at its present site in Fair Park for decades. When it considered a major expansion, modernization and relocation to a new site downtown, museum management hired Lord Cultural Resources to complete a Business Plan for the project. Our work featured a market and financial analysis and projections described by former Museum Director Steve Runnels as “superb … among the most thorough I have seen in 36 years.”

In 2006, the Dallas Museum of Natural History announced that a merger with The Science Place and the former Dallas Children’s Museum to create a world-class nature and science museum in North Texas. The merged museum has operated very successfully since 2007 in a Nature Building and Science Building in Fair Park and was re-named the Museum of Nature and Science. With the merger Lord Cultural Resources was engaged to update the Business Plan assuming a new 200,000 square foot facility and site in downtown Dallas' Victory Park.

Construction began in the fall of 2009 and the museum opened on December 1, 2012 as the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.