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| Repository: |
Dallas Municipal Archives
Office of the City Secretary
1500 Marilla Street, 5D South
Dallas, Texas 75201
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| Creator: |
City of Dallas |
| Title: |
Dallas Museum of Natural History
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| Dates: |
1967-1981, and undated |
| Quantity: |
.25 linear feet |
| Abstract: |
Reports, publications, and studies related to the Dallas
Museum of Natural History |
| Identification: |
96-032 |
| Language: |
Records are in English |
The
collection consists of reports, publications, and studies related to
the Dallas Museum of Natural History. Included in the collection
are bound copies of operational studies conducted at the request of the
museum by the University of Dallas, Graduate School of Business.
Founded in 1925 by Dallas civic leaders as the Texas Museum of Natural
History, the museum was reorganized in the 1930s as the Dallas Museum
of Natural History. In anticipation of the 1936 Texas Centennial
Exposition, the Dallas Park Board assumed control and governance of the
museum and erected a new facility for the museum at Fair Park.
The Dallas Museum of Natural History is the only public
collection-based, research driven, natural history museum in the
region, earning Smithsonian Institution Affiliate Museum status in
1999. The museum's purpose is to collect, preserve, and interpret
the flora and fauna of Dallas and the surrounding areas so that
representative specimens of the natural environment can be enjoyed in
an educational way by the general public and can be studied in a
scientific manner by the scholarly community. In 2006 the Dallas
Museum of Natural History merged with two other Fair Park museums, The
Science Place (established 1946) and the Dallas Children's Museum (established 1995),
to form the Museum of Nature and Science.
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Dallas -- Texas -- History |
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Dallas Museum of Natural History |
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Folder
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Title, Date |
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1 |
Dallas Museum of Natural History
Wildflower Works program, 1981 |
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2 |
Dallas Museum of Natural History
report, 1967 |
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3 |
Dallas Park Department publications
and Museum of Natural History newsletters, 1976 and undated |
| 1 |
4 |
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts building
conversion, 1979 |
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5 |
Dallas Museum of Natural History
visitors profile, 1980 |
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6 |
Dallas Museum of Natural History
marketing management study, 1980 |