Events

In the spirit of October and the upcoming special exhibition, Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants, the Witte Museum invites children aged 6-12 to the Texas-style Monster Mash Day Camp! We will have a fun full day learning about the “monsters” of Texas. Campers will spend an action-packed day engaged in museum […]

Celebrate the Monarch at the Witte! In celebration of the 2022 Monarch Butterfly & Pollinator Festival, the Witte presents Flight of the Butterflies. This award-winning documentary follows the extraordinary migration of the Monarch butterfly from Canada across the U.S. to Mexico. Two showings will take place at 1 PM and 3 PM. Run time is […]

Join us for the 52nd Annual Witte Game Dinner on October 17, 2022 for an unforgettable experience in the Witte Museum Zachry Family Acequia Garden. Let’s come together under the stars to share your love of the Witte and to support the museum as the premier center for nature, science and culture relating to Texas. […]

What better way to spend a day than immersing your students in the Witte Museum? Join us for a fun day of learning at Homeschool Day – Monster Fish edition! Your admission will include all of the galleries and access to our newest traveling exhibit – National Geographic’s Monster Fish: In Search of the Last […]

Quillin Society Members are invited to the Explorers Distinguished Speakers Series featuring world-renowned archaeologist Anna Roosevelt, PhD. Anna Roosevelt’s groundbreaking work and excavation of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada in Brazil transformed scientific understanding. Her scholarship complements the Witte’s own history of revealing the rock art and lifeways of the people of the Lower Pecos […]

How can you protect pollinators this fall and winter? Join Alicia Ramsey from San Antonio River Authority for Saturday with a Scientist.

What is “river health,” and how is it measured? Join San Antonio River Authority Aquatic Biologist Adrian Reyna for Saturday with a Scientist: Monster Fish Edition.

Join Dr. Andrés Tijerina, author of the new book Beasley’s Vaqueros: The Memoirs, Art and Poems of Ricardo M. Beasley, for an afternoon discussion highlighting the life and work of South Texas artist Ricardo M. Beasley. In addition to a selection of Beasley’s work, historian Andrés Tijerina has collected and translated an extensive interview with the artist and several of his poems for this new book.

Join author Lewis F. Fisher on November 22 during Free Tuesday at the Witte Museum as he shares insights from his new book. Published by Trinity University Press, Brackenridge: San Antonio's Acclaimed Urban Park, is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city's foremost gathering places.