The Friends of the UP Public Library will soon feature a guest from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Perot Museum Operations Director Jennifer Scripps will speak next Tuesday, Feb. 12 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the UP Public Library in the third-floor Community Meeting Room.   

All are welcome to this free lecture sponsored by the Friends of the UP Public Library. There is free underground parking with an elevator to the second floor Library lobby. A separate internal Library elevator will take visitors to the third floor meeting room. The UP Public Library is located at 8383 Preston Center Plaza, Suite 200 in The Plaza at Preston Center.

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a nonprofit educational organization located in Dallas, with campuses in Victory Park and Fair Park. In support of its mission to inspire minds through nature and science, the Perot Museum delivers exciting, engaging and innovative visitor and outreach experiences through its education, exhibition, and research and collections programming for children, students, teachers, families and life-long learners. The $185 million Victory Park museum, designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, opened to the public December 1, 2012. The Perot Museum is named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot, as the result of a $50 million gift made by their five adult children. To learn more about the Perot Museum, visit perotmuseum.org.

For more information about this event, contact the Library at 214.363.9095 or visit www.uplibrary.org. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the new UP Public Library and to learn about Dallas’ popular new Perot Museum of Nature and Science.