Site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, Fair Park is the only intact and unaltered pre-1950s world fair site remaining in the United States. Built to convince the worldwide visitors of Texas’ modernity, it boasts an extraordinary collection of 1930s Art Deco-style art and architecture, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

Visitors can also choose from among eight museums, six performance facilities, and a year-round schedule of festivals, fairs, markets, and sporting events to experience the 277-acre Fair Park. Broadway shows play at Fair Park’s Music Hall and rivalries like the Texas-Oklahoma college football games battle it out at the Cotton Bowl. The Museum of Natural History with its dinosaurs displayed in realistic dioramas, the Women’s Museum, the Age of Steam Railroad Museum with its 27 restored train engines and cars, and the African American Museum are all located on Fair Park grounds. The Texas State Fair, held every year, brings with it over three million visitors, food, livestock shows, entertainment, the 52-foot-tall cowboy figure known as “Big Tex”, and the largest Ferris wheel in this hemisphere – the Texas Star.