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The public’s support of the initiative
was also abundant: a year before
opening, museum leaders announced they had already met the
$185 million campaign fundraising
goal. The Perot Museum was built
entirely with private donations.
The 180,000-square-foot Perot
Museum stands approximately 14
stories tall in downtown Dallas’s
Victory Park. The overall building
mass was conceived as a large
cube floating over a landscaped
plinth, or base. Inside the innovative landmark are five floors filled
with 11 permanent exhibit halls,
state-of-the-art traveling exhibition
gallery designed to host world-class
exhibitions, an education wing
equipped with six Learning Labs
and a cinema. The exhibit halls
feature video and 3D computer
animation with thrilling, life-like
simulation. Tabletop landscapes
and computer-generated fly-overs
provide eye-popping entertainment, while hands-on activities,
interactive kiosks and educational
games engage and excite visitors of
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