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411 Elm St. Dallas, TX 75202

214-747-6660

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Best Place to Go to Understand Dallas
Award Winner 2010

Hours: Daily 9am-6pm

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Permanent exhibit examines the lifetime, legacy and assassination of John F. Kennedy, with film footage, interpretive displays and more than 400 photos.

2010 | Best Place to Go to Understand Dallas

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has become a serious international repository of documents, films, periodicals and research dealing with the Kennedy assassination, much of which the museum is now making available to the public in a sunny reading room staffed by a full-time academic research librarian. You do have to call ahead for an appointment, but the reading room is designed to be open and welcoming to all interested persons, according to Nicola Longford, executive director of the... More »
2010 | Best Assassination Coffee

The Sixth Floor Museum has expanded into the 501 Elm Building across N. Houston Street from the museum, with administrative offices upstairs and a really cool new café and store on the ground level. The café, with food from La Duni and excellent coffee, looks out on the site of the city's great shame, the event that labeled us "The City of Hate," which means that French tourists can sip lattes and despise us in air-conditioned comfort. This has to be good for the economy.... More »

Cavalli's Prosciutto Panini is Certifiably Worth the Trip

By Justin Bitner | Mon, December 5, 2011

Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW's most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he'll check it out. Venue: Cavalli Sandwich: Prosciutto Panini ... More »
Witness to Bloody History

By Alex Copeland | Thu, November 17, 2011

Today, thanks to the ubiquitous nature of the cell phone, just about everyone has a video camera on hand. We document everything with it, from popular revolutions to playful kittens, but it was not that long ago that capturing live events took a l... More »
King Spa: A Little Song, a Bite of Food and Lots of Rubbing and Sweating. Now That's a Date.

By Monica Berry | Thu, July 7, 2011

In the mood to be by yourself and go on a "me date"? Or do you and your sweetie want to try a new place for date night? Heck, do you want a new idea for a family event at a place with food and enterta... More »
Recall 9-11

By Patrick Williams | Thu, November 22, 2001

The rubble of the World Trade Center towers had not stopped smoldering before ideas began surfacing about how best to memorialize the destruction of September 11. Should the towers be rebuilt or replaced with some sort of memorial park? One propos... More »

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The Sixth Floor Museum

411 Elm St. Dallas, TX 75202

214-747-6660

Description

2010 | Best Place to Go to Understand Dallas

2010 | Best Assassination Coffee

By Justin Bitner | Mon, December 5, 2011

By Alex Copeland | Thu, November 17, 2011

By Monica Berry | Thu, July 7, 2011

By Patrick Williams | Thu, November 22, 2001