
Landmark · West End
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
If you are going to understand what happened here, start inside this building — not on a conspiracy tour.
The story
If you are going to understand what happened here, start inside this building — not on a conspiracy tour.
The Sixth Floor Museum fills the old Texas School Book Depository — the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired at the presidential motorcade. Exhibits cover Kennedy's presidency, the assassination, the investigations, and the cultural aftermath. Looking out the sixth-floor corner window puts Dealey Plaza and the X on Elm Street in the same view Oswald had.
Sources: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza · Visit Dallas — Architecture / Dealey


Visitor tips
Show up ready.
- Hours: Check jfk.org for timed tickets
- Parking: Museum parking and West End garages
- Best photo: Exterior from Houston Street; follow interior photo rules
- Best time: Book timed tickets early
- Free: No
Check in
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10 points for this landmark. Points live on this phone for now.
Address
411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202
Photo credit: Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0