PEROT MUSEUM’S BEING HUMAN HALL UNDERGOES MAJOR TRANSFORMATION AS PART OF PROMISE TO KEEP CONTENT FRESH AND RELEVANT
After months of construction, the completely refreshed Being Human Hall will feature twice as many interactive exhibits in English and Spanish, allowing visitors to use their brain to fire off pulsing lights, digitally blend their faces with early humans, experience virtual reality, explore DNA and more.
WHAT: Fulfilling a promise to keep content fresh, relevant and exciting, the Perot Museum will unveil its first transformed exhibit hall since its 2012 opening more than five years ago. The Being Human Hall will host twice as many interactive displays, a wide array of innovative content, and dozens of experiences all offered in English and Spanish. Guests will be transported through seven components of the human journey as they explore the traits and abilities that are essential and unique to being human – from early origins and DNA; to the complexities and similarities of the brain, face, and voice; to the miracle of movement.
The central theme that guides the hall is that the “story of you begins with your ancestors; it travels through your DNA; held in your hands; it moves as you walk; heard through your voice, and written in your brain.” Invigorated and highly interactive content will center on discoveries and advancements spanning from our first ancestry millions of years ago, to what characterizes and connects modern-day humans, to the scientific breakthroughs of local Nobel Prize Laureates. Not to be missed is a virtual-reality experience that puts visitors in the middle of the South African cave where internationally acclaimed paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger identified a new species of primitive human, Homo Naledi in 2015. The Perot Museum recently announced a partnership with Dr. Berger as part of a new strategic focus on human origins called the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey, for which he will serve as the Center’s Distinguished Science Advisor.
The hall will open to the public May 11, followed by a full-day “All About You Celebration” and a world record attempt on Saturday, May 12.
WHERE: Being Human Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, 2201 N. Field St., Dallas, TX 75201.
About the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The top cultural attraction in Dallas/Fort Worth and a Michelin Green Guide three-star destination, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a nonprofit educational organization located in Victory Park in the heart of Dallas, Texas. With a mission to inspire minds through nature and science, the Perot Museum delivers exciting, engaging and innovative visitor and outreach experiences through its education, exhibition, and research and collections programming for children, students, teachers, families and life-long learners. The 180,000-square-foot facility in Victory Park opened in December 2012 and recognized as the symbolic gateway to the Dallas Arts District. Future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers will find inspiration and enlightenment through 11 permanent exhibit halls on five floors of public space; a children’s museum; a state-of-the-art traveling exhibition hall; and The Hoglund Foundation Theater, a National Geographic Experience. Designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, the Victory Park museum lauded for its artistry and sustainability. To learn more, please visitperotmuseum.org.
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Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
