Perot Museum Of Nature And Science

The museum is dedicated to inspiring children to pursue stem careers by providing engaging educational tools. The museum provides hands-on learning programs for school children that support the texas essential knowledge and skills (teks) standards. To ensure accessibility of perot museum programs, particularly to schools serving students on free or reduced lunch, the museum provides financial aid with funds contributed by individuals, corporations and foundations for this purpose. In fiscal year 2024, the museum's in-person educational programs served over 326,000 participants onsite and offsite through field trips, school programs, camps, and community outreach.

The perot museum opened a new collections facility in march 2020, allowing the museum's collections to be consolidated into one, state-of-the-art facility. This facility provides ample lab and work spaces to support continued research of the collections. In addition, perot museum partners with local and regional organizations to conduct field research and fossil preservation.