Exhibits
UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures maintains 50,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Exhibit Floor features exhibits on many ethnic and cultural groups that showcase Texas culture, history, science, and technology, as well as the history of how these groups traveled across the globe to call Texas home. Guests are encouraged to bring their cameras, and not to be afraid to touch! Many of our exhibits feature hands-on elements! Our talented group of docents will share the story of each exhibit, and guests are encouraged to interact with our character performers. They bring many of the people you learn about in the museum to life!
HemisFair 1968: San Antonio’s Introduction to the World
HemisFair 1968: San Antonio's
Introduction to the World showcases how HemisFair came to
fruition, and how San Antonio became a tourist
destination for the world! The exhibit offers
a retrospective look at the sixties – from
fashion, to technology, to the nation’s
status – and chronicles some of the people,
events, and challenges that played a role during
its creation.
Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album
Photo Exhibit Explores Extraordinary Girl's Ordinary Life Before the Holocaust
This photographic exhibit showcases 71 photographs taken by Otto Frank of his family and children before going into hiding, as well as text panels explaining the photos. Anne
Frank: A Private Photo Album was developed by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and is offered exclusively in North America by the New York based Anne Frank Center USA, Inc.
Living Texas
It’s one thing to read about how Texas’s earliest cultural contributors lived their lives—it’s another to actually experience it! Living
Texas features interpretive areas that offer guests a firsthand view of early settlers in action. Guests can talk to a ranch hand beside an authentic chuck wagon, witness the creation of thread on two spinning wheels, look inside an Indian tipi, send postcards at an old-style post office, and discuss quilting techniques with a team of experts as they design new quilts. Don’t just read about it. Experience it as we bring early Texas lifestyles to life!
Texans One and All
This exhibit showcases more than twenty of the original cultural groups who settled in Texas. Enjoy the sounds of a German oompah band. Learn Wendish wedding customs. Read the story of the Lebanese pack peddler. Write Chinese numbers. Hear the stories of Japanese American intern camp detainees. See the Czech polka. Hear the blowing of the Jewish shofar. Read the stories of black Texans including baseball player Frank Robinson and Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller. See how early Swedish Texans lived. Walk through today's Tejano story. Learn what Danish Texan sculpted Mount Rushmore. Guests will be entertained by hundreds of stories of Texas's earliest cultural contributors in this entertaining and interactive exhibit.
Creation and Cosmos
Creation and Cosmos explores the spirituality of creation and the search for a place in the cosmos of a variety of Native American peoples.
Conjunto
This exhibit examines the rich Mexican-American roots of the musical style through paintings, photographs, and sculptures of musicians, instruments and dancers.
S.A.V.I.G.
S.A.V.I.G. is San Antonio Virtual & Interactive Geometry. The goal of S.A.V.I.G. is to restore the excitement, interest, and mental surprise in the study of geometry and mathematics by providing students of all ages with the opportunity to explore the world of geometry through hands-on experiments and interactive and virtual presentations.
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