Museums can be a good place for anyone to explore, but some are aimed more toward children while others are designed more for adults. After all, most kids don’t really have the patience or the experience to appreciate artwork or old historical artifacts. So if you want to take your family out to a museum in San Antonio, Texas, and your kids are too young to enjoy an art gallery, head to one of these kid-friendly museums instead.
The DoSeum
San Antonio’s premier children’s museum is called the DoSeum and sits right along Broadway Street north of the downtown district. The DoSeum offers plenty of exhibits kids of all ages can enjoy, including a few rotating exhibits that keep things fresh. For instance, the Spy Academy challenges skills like creating and breaking codes, using maps, and using logic, and the Innovation Station is all about coming up with new ideas and learning by doing. Ticket prices are a flat $14 for every visitor one year old and up, and the usual hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Witte Museum
The Witte Museum is another Broadway Street destination, and it’s right across from the San Antonio Zoo. Witte is a historical museum, but it keeps things interesting for kids by offering a surprising range of exhibits. The Texas Wild Gallery features dioramas of the different animals and plants that live in all the different Texas biomes. The Dinosaur Gallery has fossils and displays, and the Body Adventure exhibit is all about health and wellness. Hours on most days are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and tickets are $12 for most adults and $9 for kids ages 4 to 11.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Just across North Alamo Street from the Alamo itself is Ripley’s Believe It or Not, a museum franchise that originally started as a newspaper feature. The first permanent museum was opened in Florida, but the one in San Antonio is definitely worth visiting with the whole family. The collection fills up three floors with some of the many strange artifacts Ripley gathered together over the years, including authentic shrunken heads. Ripley’s is partners with the wax museum next door, but a ticket for the museum costs $22 for adults and $14 for kids. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. most days.
The Texas Air Museum
The Texas Air Museum is at the southern end of San Antonio on Stinson Field. It’s unique for an air museum thanks to its large collection of early aircraft: the biplanes and triplanes made of wood and canvas that filled the skies before World War I. The museum also has aircraft from later eras, especially ones built or designed in Texas. The museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and tickets cost just $4 for adults, $2 for teens, and $1 for younger kids.
These are just a few of the museums in the San Antonio area. Depending on what your kids like, there are all kinds of other places where you can take them.
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