Witte Museum
The Witte Museum looks to be a great little place. I just found out about it today and I can’t wait to visit!
The museum describes itself as:
. . .San Antonio’s premiere museum of South Texas history, culture, and natural science. Located in Brackenridge Park, on the banks of the San Antonio River, the Witte offers permanent exhibits that include dinosaur skeletons, cave drawings, wildlife dioramas, and even some live animals. Several historic homes have been reconstructed on the campus, which also features the very popular H-E-B Science Treehouse. Changing galleries include Texas artists, textiles and showcase exhibits, some locally produced and some traveling national exhibits.
What got me excited is their exhibit titled “Gems of the Collection”. The exhibit is a collection of favorites chosen by past visitors to the museum. It will be really interesting to see the best of the best as determined by actual ‘consumers’ of the past.
This exhibit will be available until July 29 of this year. Their operating hours vary a bit. On average they’re open from 10am to 5pm, the variables are that on Tuesdays they’re open until 8pm and on Sundays they open beginning at noon.
And check this out! They have a (stuffed)wingless bird!
It’s called an Apertx and I’ve never heard of one before in my life. Have you? Google’s not even heard of it. I wonder what the story is?
How to find the place looks pretty simple, they’re on Broadway just south of Hildebrand and east of Brackenridge park. I can easily see Chris and I visiting the museum and then playing in park for a while, maybe visiting the zoo.
All images and quoted text from the Witte Museum website. Will remove upon request. Thank you!
