Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza occupies the sixth floor of the former school textbook warehouse in downtown Dallas, displaying exhibits about the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. The rooms contain period documents, photographs, television recordings and personal items illustrating the political and social climate of the early Sixties.

The building was erected in 1901 as a warehouse and served until the early Seventies as a distribution point for printed school textbooks in Texas. After purchase by Dallas County, the museum floor opened in 1989 to document the historical events of 1963.

The name recalls the building's former role as a school textbook warehouse, while today visitors walk through exhibition rooms filled with photographs, film footage and newspaper headlines from the early Sixties. Many people pause at the windows overlooking Dealey Plaza, where the events of November 1963 took place.

The exhibition can be explored with a self-guided audio tour available in several languages, leading through the different areas of the floor. Visitors will find on-site signs explaining how to move through the rooms and which sections are especially informative.

One section preserves hundreds of audio recordings of personal memories, in which people recount how they learned about the president's death and what they experienced in the days that followed. These spoken testimonies offer direct access to the emotional reactions of that time.

Location: Texas

Inception: February 20, 1989

Official opening: February 20, 1989

Part of: Texas School Book Depository

Address: Dealey Plaza

Website: https://jfk.org

GPS coordinates: 32.77971,-96.80844

Latest update: December 17, 2025 08:26