Witte Museum

Dive into Texas’ wild and vivid lands, especially its people, their resilience and how they adapted to or impacted the ever-developing Texas.

How do crystals form? This hands-on, family-friendly workshop delves into the growth of crystals and the different factors that come together to create unique, shiny shapes.

What is inside a toy? Inspired by National Engineering Week and the special exhibition "Toys: The Way We Play," this hands-on workshop gets under the surface of familiar playthings. You’ll crack open toys, identify how different toys work and use the pieces to design your own unique toy.

Inspired by the special exhibition Toys: The Way We Play, this hands-on family-friendly workshop explores the physics of magnetism. You’ll investigate the unique properties of magnets and engineer your own magnetic creation.

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! Choose between two special Toys: The Way We Play-themed programs.

SOLD OUT – Tamale season is around the corner! Join your Witte family for the 15th annual La Tamalada as we learn a little tamale history, which dates back thousands of years. Spend your morning getting your hands in masa and making tamales, followed by a box lunch.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]