Events

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.

Discover how DNA is extracted from bacteria, uncover E coli detection in water samples and learn how to use a dissolved oxygen meter inside National Geographic’s "Monster Fish" special exhibition.