TexNET Hub—Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Fort Worth will be the leadership, educational, and administrative nexus of TexNET, coordinating exhibit rotation and maintenance, facilitating workshops, and providing educational materials.

Established in 1941 as the Fort Worth Children's Museum, its permanent exhibits include Lone Star Dinosaurs, Hands-On Science, ExploraZone, KIDSPACE, DinoDig, and Coming through Cowtown. The museum has two galleries that host 5-6 exhibitions a year, an Omni Theater, and a planetarium. Programs include Museum School, Museum Preschool, Family Science Nights, Hands-On Science Partnership, community events, and teacher professional development.

The museum welcomes over 1 million visitors annually, making it the most popular cultural attraction in North Texas. Fort Worth is a leader in the Texas Informal Science Education Association, a founding member of the Science Museum Exhibits Collaborative, a member of the Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative, and a member of the NSF-sponsored PIE (Playful Invention and Exploration) Network. The museum is active in two NSF National Centers for Teaching and Learning—the Texas A&M Center for Applications of Information Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Science, and the Center for Informal Learning and Schools, a partnership of the Exploratorium, Kings College, and UC Santa Cruz.

Since 1998, Fort Worth has been a member of the Exploratorium Network for Exhibit-based Teaching (ExNET). ExNET is a hybrid exhibit and teaching program that annually rotates sets of 30-40 Exploratorium exhibits and professional development to nine mid-sized museums and science centers in the US and Mexico which serves as a larger-scale model for the regional partnership of TexNET.

In the first year, Fort Worth hosts all three exhibit sets, and then as exhibit sets rotate in year two, Fort Worth will lead exhibit-based training. Fort Worth staff provides on-site maintenance service to augment partner capabilities. Fort Worth's specific duties include staff development in workshop design and facilitation, increased capacity to support regional informal institutions, additional experience working with traditionally underserved groups of Texas, build and lead a regional network, regional leadership role in informal science education. Staff includes Charlie Walter, Colleen Blair, Chip Lindsey, Anne Herndon, and Dennis Gabbard.