Witte Museum
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The Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, offers exhibits on Texas history, natural science, and culture, featuring dinosaur fossils, cave drawings, and wildlife dioramas.
Planning your visit
The Witte, founded in 1926, is San Antonio's museum of Texas — natural history, science, culture and art gathered around the state's own story rather than a general survey.
The Lower Pecos rock art is the distinctive holding. Along the canyons of the Rio Grande, hunter-gatherers painted enormous polychrome murals four thousand years ago, among the oldest art in North America, and the museum's reconstructions and research on them are the principal public interpretation.
Texas dinosaurs are strong, with fossils and a substantial palaeontology gallery, and the wildlife dioramas date from the museum's early decades.
The riverside campus includes historic houses moved to the site and a hands-on science building for children.
It sits on Broadway along the San Antonio River, upstream of the Alamo and the Riverwalk.
Allow three hours. Current availability is listed below.
Before you book
Where is Witte Museum?
Witte Museum is in San Antonio, United States. The map on this page marks its exact location.
How long should I allow for Witte Museum?
Allow three hours. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book Witte Museum in advance?
Tickets can be bought on the door at quiet times, but booking ahead fixes the date and avoids the queue at busy ones. Live availability is shown on this page.
