Dallas area school children, residents and visitors will find new sources of understanding and pride through the Museum's exhibits. The Museum can inspire children to achieve loftier goals through stories of vision made real. They will be told in a manner that educates and entertains; they will be told with respect for the richness and diversity of the many cultures of Dallas; and they will be told accurately and honestly.
Museum visitors will gain an understanding of how the past teaches us of our present and our future. Visitors will learn.
- How fertile farmland made cotton the mainstay of local agriculture, feeding growth through the 19th century. By 1925, Dallas was the largest cotton market in the world.
- How civic leaders aggressively pursued railroad development, resulting in the only crossroads of north-south/east-west railways for hundreds of miles, and thus Dallas became a critical juncture during the great western migration.
- How Dallas became a center for aviation, developing a training site during World War I that eventually became Love Field. Or how many young Dallas innovators in 1903 were challenging the Wright brothers to be the first in the air.
- How Dallas became a center for high-technology development in the post-war era, through the growth of such companies as Texas Instruments. Visionary leaders not only developed military and consumer products previously undreamt of, but created business and management practices that were later adopted by American industry nationwide.