The mission of THE ARTS gallery is to serve as a center for aesthetic exploration through the creative process of fine arts faculty and students, professional artists, and arts organizations. By presenting quality, interdisciplinary art exhibitions and events THE...

Internationally renowned as the filming location for the "Dallas" television series, Southfork Ranch is known worldwide as America's most famous ranch. Today, Southfork welcomes visitors to tour the Mansion and Ranch as well as guests who attend the many special...

The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary covers 289 acres and includes a variety of animals and plants and nature trails. Visitors may spot animals including deer or bobcats as well as migrating birds along one of the seven nature trails. Along with...

The mission of the ArtCentre of Plano, Inc. is to encourage, support and promote excellence, diversity, and vitality in the arts and arts education in the Greater Plano Area. Our goals are: to provide the resources and physical facility required to support the...

Located in downtown Plano, the Interurban Railway Museum is housed in a building that served as a primary stop on the Texas Electric Railway that ran from Denison to Dallas beginning in 1908. On December 31, 1948, the Denison to Dallas Interurban made its last run....

The Heritage Farmstead Museum (HFM) is the premiere living history site interpreting the Texas black-land prairie region in north-Texas. An American Association of Museums accredited institution, the HFM strives to offer unique encounters with objects and ideas for...

Located in Michael's retail store, The Pest Shop, the cockroaches Hall of Fame is home to dozens of displays of "roach art". These displays of cockroaches consist of real (deceased) cockroaches that have been dressed in costumes to portray various themes. For...

Chestnut Square Historic Village is a collection of six historic homes, a replica of a one-room school house, chapel and store on 2.5 acres just south of the downtown McKinney square.  The grounds also include a blacksmith shop, smoke house, and beautiful chapel and...

The Heard-Craig House, built in 1900, is one of the most beautifully preserved historic homes in North Texas. The gracious hospitality of S. D. Heard and his wife, Lillie, made this residence a center of social, business, art and literary activities. The family’s...

Today NTHC focuses on its mission to serve the community by revealing our past through preserving, collecting, and exhibiting our cultural resources, thereby nurturing understanding of our diverse human experience in North Texas. This mission is fulfilled though...