The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — Attraction in Dallas

I visited the museum as a chaperone for a pre-arranged and paid for 8th grade field trip. Our tour arrived to the museum at 12:08 for our 12:15 scheduled tour. When our group of 40+ students tried to enter the building through the group entrance door, we found that it was locked. Christina looked at our group through the door and made no attempt to communicate with us. We thought we were potentially at the incorrect door so we started to walk around the building to the main entrance. As Christina saw us walking she charged to the window and wagged her finger at us and pointed us back to the group entrance. We were still confused, so I decided to enter through the main entrance to find out what was going on. As Christina saw me walking into the building the blocked me from entering and informed me, rather rudely, that we were early and wouldn’t be allowed to enter until they had staff in place to help us. Ok. That’s fine. I then asked if a couple of our students and chaperones could use the restroom while we waited. Christina refused to let us use the restroom and informed me that we would have to wait until our tour and could only use the restrooms on the 7th floor. Once we were allowed in the building, Christina was rude to our students and informed us that we would not be allowed to tour as a whole group. We were never planning on touring as a whole group. We had eight chaperones and had the group split into groups of ten with each group wearing a different t-shirt color. Christina also informed the chaperones that we were not to stop at the exhibits and ask our students questions or allow them to read the displays in the exhibits. When I asked why she stated, “we are too busy for you guys to take a tour” and rolled her eyes at me. I then asked what we were supposed to do since we couldn’t “tour” the museum. She told me that we needed to just walk through as quickly as possible to avoid disturbing other visitors. Once we finally started our non-tour tour, we noticed that staff members were following each of our groups through the museum and radioing each other of our locations. We felt rushed and unwelcome. Christina was unnecessarily rude and unprofessional. Our students felt humiliated and judged. After we left the 6th Floor Museum we visited Bush Library and had the exact opposite experience where we were told our students were one of the most respectful and well behaved groups to ever visit. Unfortunately, Christina ruined the experience for our students who had prepared for and were excited to see for themselves what we had been teaching them about. Christina should probably work on her people skills if she’s going to be customer facing at such a high traffic museum. Maybe she should also try not the judge people and think about how she could ruin experiences for...

Go inside here to this Texas Historical Museum, if you are a scholar, or a student of history, or only just enjoy giving your money away to a non-profit organization. Who can't provide a complete experience for a family or couple or individuals on the weekend.

Note: There is more information online. With all the recent revelation of flash JFK files drops on Telegram app, this information alone will blow your mind. And you'll never be able to listen to another museum teleprompter or guides' rehearsed speech the same way ever again!

There is also a manuscript public freelance seller just outside across from the book depository, aka the museum that offers a full color historical booklet for $20. There are some morbid shootings by death motorcade and hospital photos that are censored elsewhere.

And there's no restroom available on weekends. All local restaurants nearby won't allow you admittance to restrooms either, unless you order something to eat.

The real thrill of the overall vibe by your experience is being here, outside the old book depository in Dealey Plaza. Where you don't pay a price to experience history. And it is thrilling, just walking on the grassy knoll area. Where you see the images in person, by your mind's eye. That you have seen over and over before. Now it is in person. That is history in itself, while being there on the grassy knoll, with the old book depository in your panoramic vision. Dallas 1pm.

Duly Notable: The experience of driving through the Plaza here, where the motorcade passed through, is an out of body experience like no other I've felt.

While visiting the plaza: A strange experience occurred while here. There was a parent fight breakout to pandemonium inside the Kay Bailey Hutchinson center, which became an extreme data alert sent by my data carrier xfinity. Dallas police canceled the event for the NCA All Stars exhibition because they believed gunfire was taking place there. The panic ensued a foot stampede outside the convention center and the Omni hotel at approximately 1 pm,...

When in Dallas I had to come and visit a museum of one of the most important presidents in US history.

The museum is located only on one floor (sixt to be precise hence the name) of the Dallas County Administration Building, but it is very informative and comprehensive. It features boards with information and pictures of JFK and his presidency, video and audio exhibits, as well as the model of Dealey Plaza used by the FBI for reconstruction of the situation.

I appreciate the fact it is not only about JFK's assassinations, but also about his life, his ideas, it explains the situation before and after his presidency, and shows how America has changed after his death. There are also boards focusing on the assasins life, the forensic evidence of the assasination or the conspiracy theories.

There is a lot of information to process, therefore I spent nearly two hours here. Although I wished the museum was better organized, signposted if you will. There is no indication which board to read next and if you want to go chronologically like me, you might be a little confused.

Sometimes it was also difficult to focus on the written text, as the audio and video was disturbing and the large amount of talking visitors did not help either. Complimenting audio guides would seem like a reasonable evolution to enhance visitors' satisfaction.

I paid 20 USD for entry, which is reasonable, however parking is extra. There is a little book store at the exit worth exploring, however this is not the end nor it should be of the experience. It's a must to go and explore Dealey Plaza as it literally did not change since this unfortunate event. The three X's painted on the road symbolizes the three gunshots fired at the president. Just be careful of the local so called "guides", they seem like they want to scam people.

Informative place worth visiting, the museum does a great job shedding a light on this assassination. Visited in June 2023....