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Back 40 UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures' Back 40 tours offer a unique, hands-on learning experience in a historical Texas setting. The Back 40 is the museum's outdoor living history area and is home to a one-room schoolhouse, a log house, a barn, an army fort barracks, and an adobe house—all typical of Texas in the 1800s. Each building serves as an ideal setting for a Texas history lesson. Back 40 tours feature knowledgeable instructors in authentic costumes demonstrating and describing the daily lives of early Texans in the 19th century. Students and tour groups will experience firsthand the hardships and joys the early Texans experienced and will have fun learning in the process. In the spring of 2008, the museum will begin offering specialty tours of the Back 40 for adult school groups: The Pioneer Life Tour, a special guided tour about Texas life in the log house, barn, and garden; the Texas Character Tour, which allows guests to meet some historical Texas characters who both entertain and teach with their life stories; and the Customized Themed Tour, which includes specific areas of the Exhibit Floor and some of the structures on the Back 40 for real-life connections. For reservations at one of Texas's most unusual classroom settings, please call (210) 458-2291. Specialty tours will be available from 1 to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Weekend tours are available with two weeks' notice and are limited to 20 guests. Tours for grades 1-12 can be scheduled for 10 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. Tuesday through Friday.
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