Adrian E. Flatt Hand Collection

Tucked inside the lobby of Baylor University Medical Center's George W. Truett Memorial Hospital, this is 120+ bronze-cast hands assembled over decades by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adrian Flatt — Abraham Lincoln's 1860 cast sits a few feet from André the Giant's, Walt Disney's, Mickey Mantle's, and a crew of NASA astronauts. Flatt started by molding patients' hands for surgical planning, then spent years chasing famous mitts around the world, building what the Dallas Observer once crowned (with full tongue in cheek) "Best Place to Look at a Bunch Of Hands." It's free, open around the clock, sits in a working hospital corridor, and almost never shows up on any Dallas top-ten list — you stumble past it between the gift shop and the elevator bank.

The move: Park at Baylor, wander into the Truett lobby like you own the place, and spend twenty minutes arguing about whose hands are weirder — Lincoln's pre-presidential mitts or André the Giant's absolute units — then grab coffee at whatever's open nearby and tell everyone you have a museum recommendation they've never heard of.

• 📍 East Dallas & Lakewood
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 3501 Junius Street, Dallas, TX 75246

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Verified 2026-06-09.