{"id":401306,"date":"2026-08-08T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:52:08","slug":"perot-museum-expansion-plans-include-90-million-project-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401306\/","title":{"rendered":"Perot Museum expansion plans include $90 million project \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is growing.<\/p>\n<p>The museum said this week they will be adding a fourth-level parking garage, a covered walkway to the main entrance, and additional event space with more restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being privately funded and will cost around $90 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Projects\/TABS2026026458\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The TDLR website said construction is expected to begin Jan. 1, 2027, and finish Jan. 1, 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The museum was last renovated in 2020, when construction reimagined the warehouse and office space.<\/p>\n<p>The museum opened its facility in Victory Park in December 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perotmuseum.org\/about-us\/mission-and-history\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">but has roots in Dallas going back nearly 100 years<\/a>. The museum was created from the 2006 merger of The Dallas Museum of Natural History (1936), The Science Place (1946), and the Dallas Children\u2019s Museum (1995). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is growing. The museum said this week they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-401306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}