Wondering how to keep the kids busy as we head into autumn? From San Antonio to Austin, there are many museums to explore with the kids this fall. Check out a few local ones in these two cities to try. They’re all family friendly and are sure to educate while having fun.
San Antonio
DoSeum
Located at 2800 Broadway Road in San Antonio, the DoSeum is a leader in informal education with a mission to connect families, grow curious minds, and transform communities. It’s much more than a children’s museum. Here, you can learn by doing. The hands-on learning experiences are powered by play, with programs that range from Big Day of Play and Family Workshops to Tinkerfest and Artist-in-Residence.
Exhibits include Little Town, Bubble Lab, Force Course, Big Outdoors, Sensations Studios, and Calm Corner. From camps to the Little Doers Preschool, there’s plenty to do here at the DoSeum.
Witte Museum
The Witte Museum is where nature, science, and culture meet. Located at 3801 Broadway, the Witte Museum is San Antonio’s most-visited museum, hosting hundreds of thousands of visitors from within Bexar County and beyond. The kids will love visiting exhibits such as Sharks!, Surviving Space: Astronauts & Asteroids, Fiesta Looks to the Skies, and Black Cowboys: An American Story.
The Witte Museum boasts a collection of more than 320,000 historic as well as contemporary artifacts, works of art, and specimens as it preserves and displays items from all over the community. Collections cover a broad range of topics, from anthropology and archeology to paleontology and Texas history.
There are countless other family-friendly museums to check out in San Antonio, so plan your visit today!
Austin
Thinkery
Located at 1830 Simond Ave, Thinkery features 40,000 square feet of learning space complete with interactive exhibits and hands-on activities to pique children’s curiosity and make learning fun. There’s something going on every day, from Community Spotlights to Baby Bloomers to Music in the Museum. Programs include STEAM Pop-Ups, Thinkery Camp, Artists in Residence, C.R.E.A.T.E, and more.
There’s also the Little Thinkers Preschool, Austin’s only museum-based preschool based on a child-led, hands-on, holistic educational approach. It provides kids access to interactive STEAM-learning exhibits so that students can be prepared academically, socially, and physically when they enter kindergarten.
Texas Science and Natural History Museum
Located on the campus of UT Austin, the Texas Science and Natural History Museum explores the Lone Star State’s natural world, from the formation of the planet, through the age of the dinosaurs, right into current times. What was life like here in Texas 67 million years ago, a time when dinosaurs and reptiles dominated Earth? Your kids can walk under the huge 33-foot wingspan of a pterosaur, explore fossils, check out Texas wildlife and biodiversity, and feel actual meteorites.
Visit the museum for free during Free Fourth Sundays, from 1pm to 5pm. Exhibits include Texas Titans, Paleontology Gallery, Particles of Color, Texas Wildlife Gallery, and Geology Gallery. Opening in September 2024 is Big Eye on Dark Skies, featuring a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which happens to be the largest optical telescope in all of North America.
Check out the many other children’s museums in and around Austin!
Schedule a Tour of Country Home Learning Center Today
We are big on enrichment here at Country Home Learning Center. That’s why we offer summer camps with field trips to local museums such as the Institute of Texan Cultures, Bob Bullock Museum, and Science Tree House. We encourage families to visit these and more museums throughout the year, especially in fall when the weather is nice. Contact us today to book your tour of our facilities in San Antonio and Austin.