Dance is used every day to share stories and emotions as part of a group or on our own. Dancers Tara Gregory and Sarah Matzke from the Bishop Arts Theatre Center led a virtual dance intensive in 2020 to help students express themselves through movement. Explore how to use dance and movement to help you deal with emotions from … Continued

Join award winning visual artist and educator Dr. Joan M.E. Gaither and explore how artists use historic people, places and events to tell stories. In conversation with the Museum’s Director of Education Genevieve Kaplan learn how Dr. Gaither created a large series of quilts documenting the decades of her life through everyday items while sharing … Continued

In his 1960 presidential nomination speech, Kennedy envisioned a New Frontier. His idea for a New Frontier included confronting many of the same challenges we still encounter today such as civil rights, foreign policy, science and education. Students will discuss the challenges Kennedy faced during his administration and determine how far we have come since … Continued

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a virtual artist conversation with Gage Mace, moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin. This program was recorded via Zoom on February 24, 2021. Watch the program at youtube.com/sixthfloormuseum

During the Cold War scientists and government agencies worked tirelessly to create new technologies that would improve their information gathering and sharing. In this session of Sixties Science learn about U-2 spy planes and hidden messages before designing your own airplane and invisible ink.   The Sixties Science program is a monthly series connecting history … Continued

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a virtual artist conversation with Tansill Stough-Anthony, moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin. This program was recorded via Zoom on March 16, 2021. Watch the program at youtube.com/sixthfloormuseum

Free Virtual Event   The Sixth Floor Museum and the UNT Dallas College of Law present: Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby with authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher in conversation with Felecia Epps, Dean and Professor of Law, UNT Dallas College of Law.   New York Times best-selling authors … Continued

Join The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for a workshop about civil rights featuring a conversation with civil rights activist Ernest McMillan and primary source-based activities for the classroom.

To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and celebrate Black History Month, the Museum assembled a special series of civil rights-related oral histories: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement.   Represented in these interviews are the major civil rights organizations from the early 1960s, including the NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Non-violent Coordinating … Continued

  Museum members are invited to join the Museum for an evening with Mark Updegrove to celebrate the publication of his new book, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency.   6:00 P.M. | Reception 6:30 P.M. | Program | Mark Updegrove in conversation with Nicola Longford, CEO of The Sixth Floor Museum   Complimentary self-parking … Continued