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Ticket and booking rules for Dallas: timed entries, closing days and official links, checked September 2026.
Checked September 2026 against official sources
Dallas
Bookings and opening rules
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Downtown Dallas: hours and tickets
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is open Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 and is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The last ticket is sold and the last entry allowed at 16:15.Source: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — Plan Your Visit · checked Sep 2026
- The Perot Museum of Nature and Science opens Sunday 11:00 to 17:00 and Monday and Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, and is closed on Tuesdays through 7 April 2027 apart from special holiday hours. The last entry to the exhibits is 16:00, the café runs daily 11:00 to 16:00, and the museum says the average visit takes two to three hours.Source: Perot Museum of Nature and Science — Hours · checked Sep 2026
- At Reunion Tower, ticket sales close and the final elevator departs 30 minutes before closing time. General admission to the GeO-Deck runs $19 to $40 for adults, $16 to $35 for visitors over 65 and $10 to $20 for children aged 4 to 12, depending on the date and time; a Day + Night ticket costs $24 to $40 for adults and the second visit must be used within 24 hours of the first.Source: Reunion Tower — Plan Your Visit · checked Sep 2026
The Arts District and Fort Worth museums
- The Nasher Sculpture Center is open Wednesday to Sunday 11:00 to 17:00 and closed Monday and Tuesday, as well as Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for DART riders with proof of ticket, $7 for visitors 65 and over and $5 for students and educators with identification, and it covers the galleries, the sculpture garden, special exhibitions and the café. Entry is free on the first Saturday of each month from 11:00 to 17:00, and the 'til Midnight evenings run on the third Friday from 18:00 to midnight.Source: Nasher Sculpture Center — Visit · checked Sep 2026
- Admission to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is free. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, with Sunday from noon to 17:00, most days 10:00 to 17:00 and a late Thursday to 20:00, and it closes on Mondays and on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.Source: Amon Carter Museum of American Art — Visit · checked Sep 2026
On the day
What to watch at each stop
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- Open Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 17:00 and closed Monday and Tuesday, with the last ticket sold and last entry at 16:15; book ahead for a timed slot in spring and autumn; the seventh-floor gallery has a separate temporary exhibition
Old Red Museum
- Open daily, roughly 10:00 to 17:00 with a modest ticket; it stands directly across from Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum, so the three go together in one morning
Reunion Tower
- Ticket sales close and the final elevator departs 30 minutes before closing; adult tickets run from about $19 to $40 depending on the date and time slot, seniors $16 to $35 and children 4 to 12 $10 to $20; a Day + Night ticket lets you come back within 24 hours
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
- Open Sunday 11:00 to 17:00 and Monday and Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, and closed on Tuesdays through 7 April 2027; last exhibit entry 16:00; timed entry tickets and the museum reckons two to three hours
Dallas Museum of Art
- Open Tuesday to Sunday, roughly 11:00 to 17:00 with a late Thursday, and closed Monday; general admission is free and special exhibitions are ticketed; the Nasher and the Crow Collection are both within two minutes on foot
Kimbell Art Museum
- Open Tuesday to Sunday and closed Monday, roughly 10:00 to 17:00 with a late Friday; admission to the permanent collection is free and special exhibitions are ticketed; allow two hours, and look up at the vaults at least once
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Admission is free; open Tuesday to Sunday with a late Thursday and closed on Mondays and on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas
Questions
Quick answers
What is the best time of year to visit Dallas?
March to May and October to November. Spring brings the bluebonnets and temperatures around 24 to 28°C, though it is also storm season and North Texas takes hail and the occasional tornado warning seriously. Autumn is drier and just as warm. July and August run above 35°C for weeks and regularly pass 38, which makes any outdoor plan a morning-only plan. Winter is mild at around 13°C with a few hard freezes and the rare ice storm that shuts the city down completely for a day or two.
How much does Dallas cost per day?
It is cheaper than the coastal American cities and the museums help. Two of the best things in the metroplex, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Amon Carter, are free, and so is the Kimbell's permanent collection. A hostel bed is $40 to $60, a mid-range hotel room $150 to $250, and a good downtown hotel more. Eating is where Texas is generous: a barbecue plate is $18 to $25, a taqueria lunch under $15, and a serious dinner $60 to $90 a head. Budget about $60 for museum tickets on the day you do the Perot and Reunion Tower.
Is the Sixth Floor Museum worth it?
Yes, and more than most visitors expect. It is not a shrine and it is not a conspiracy exhibit; it is a careful, document-heavy account of a week in 1963 assembled from film, photographs, recordings and the physical floor itself, and it treats the competing investigations as evidence to be weighed rather than settled. The audio guide is included and carries the visit. Allow two hours. Note that it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, which catches people out, and that the last entry is 16:15.
The days these rules belong to
3 days in Dallas
Dallas is a city of 1.3 million at the centre of a metropolitan area of about eight million, sitting on flat blackland prairie in north Texas with no harbour, no navigable river and no natural reason to be where it is. It was a trading post at a ford on the Trinity in 1841, grew because two railways crossed here in the 1870s, got rich on cotton and then on the banking and insurance that financed the East Texas oil boom, and has been building towers ever since. Almost everything a visitor comes for was made deliberately: an arts district assembled block by block with buildings by Barnes, Piano, Foster and Koolhaas, a park laid over a freeway, a museum in the warehouse from which the shots were fired in 1963. Fort Worth, fifty kilometres west, is older, lower and completely different in temperament, and it holds museums that outrank anything in Dallas. The airport between them is one of the busiest in the world.
