The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a museum located on the sixth and seventh floor of the Dallas County Administration Building, an early twentieth-century warehouse formerly known as the Texas School Book Depository. The museum houses a permanent exhibit on the life, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy through films, artifacts, and photographs. The museum has greater than thirty-five thousand items connected to the shooting, and it even stands on the exact spot where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired the fatal shot on November 22, 1963.

The museum officially became open to the public on February 20, 1989?Presidents? Day. The museum strives to collect, protect, and interpret the materials related to the shooting and death of Kennedy with the purpose of helping people, especially those who were born after the tragedy, understand how that single event caused an immense change in the world?s history.

The Sixth Floor Museum, aside from films, artifacts, and photographs, also makes use of interpretive displays to demonstrate the circumstances of the assassination, results of official investigations, and the historical legacy left brought about by the tragedy.

The Sixth Floor Museum is recognized as one of the largest institutions in the world that chronicles the Kennedy assassination. The museum has in its special collections the Abraham Zapruder and Orville Nix collections. It is self-sufficient in terms of funding, which it gets solely from donations and tickets. The museum offers monthly programs, educational resources, and special events in relation to its mission of spreading awareness and understanding of the Kennedy assassination.