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Specialty Museum Attractions In Fort Worth

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Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Texas. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker and Wise. According to the 2017 census estimates, Fort Worth's population is 874,168. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area , 4th most populous metropolitan area in the United States.The city was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today, Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditio...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Fort Worth

  • 1. Amon Carter Museum of American Art Fort Worth
    The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district. The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The greatest concentration of works falls into the period from the 1820s through the 1940s. Photographs, prints, and other works on paper produced up to the present day are also an area of strength in the museum's holdings. The collection is particularly focused on portrayals of the Old West by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, artworks depicting nineteenth-century exploration and settlement of the North American continent, and masterworks that are emblematic...
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  • 2. Fort Worth Aviation Museum Fort Worth
    Fort Worth Meacham International Airport is a general aviation airport in Fort Worth, Texas similar to Addison Airport on the Dallas side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It is at the intersection of Interstate 820 and U.S. Business Highway 287 in northwest Fort Worth, near downtown. It has two parallel runways; the old runway 9-27 is now closed permanently. The airport is named after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham.
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  • 3. Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery Fort Worth
    Oscar E. Monnig was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.
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  • 4. Texas Civil War Museum Fort Worth
    The Texas Civil War Museum, located in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, opened in 2006. It is the largest Civil War museum west of the Mississippi River. It consists of three separate galleries that display a Civil War collection, a Victorian dress collection, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy Texas Confederate collection. The UDC has one of three seats on the Museum's board. Some of its collection came from the former Texas Confederate Museum in Austin, curated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.The Museum has been criticized in the press for being an advocate and apologist for the Confederacy. It protests against the removal of Civil War monuments. Its theater shows a romanticized video, 'Our Honor, Our Rights: Texas and Texans in the Civil War'. The author of ...
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  • 6. National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Fort Worth
    The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Fort Worth, Texas, US. Established in 1975, it is dedicated to honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and pioneering fortitude. The museum is an educational resource with exhibits, a research library, and rare photography collection. It annually adds Honorees to its Hall of Fame.
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  • 9. Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Fort Worth
    Arlington is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Tarrant County. It is part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, approximately 12 miles east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles west of downtown Dallas. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's estimate, the city had a population of 396,394 in 2017, making it the third-largest municipality in the metropolitan area. Arlington is the forty-eighth-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the state of Texas, and the largest city in the state that is not a county seat. Arlington is home to the University of Texas at Arlington, a major urban research university, the Arlington Assembly plant used by General Motors, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV, Tex...
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  • 10. Leonard's Department Store Museum Fort Worth
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  • 11. Vintage Flying Museum Fort Worth
    The Vintage Flying Museum is an American aviation museum located at Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas.
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  • 12. Christian Art Museum of Ft. Worth Fort Worth
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  • 13. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Dallas
    Dealey Plaza is a city park in the West End district of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the birthplace of Dallas. It also was the location of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963. The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in 1993 to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, and buildings and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible locations for assassins.
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