Exhibits
The Institute of Texan Cultures maintains 65,000 square feet of exhibits designed to entertain, inspire, and educate. Bring your camera, and be on the lookout for museum docents and interpreters who will share fascinating stories that help bring the museum’s exhibits to life. You can use this exhibit floor map to plan your visit.
Nativity Art of Ferdinand Pribyl (1840-1915)
Nov. 21, 2009 – Jan. 3, 2010
During the holiday season, the Institute of Texan Cultures will display two family nativities created by Texas Czech artist Ferdinand Pribyl in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Pribyl nativities have been passed down four generations as family heirlooms.
Pribyl’s nativities are massive 10-to-20-foot dioramas. Pribyl hand-painted the nativity scenes on cardboard from oatmeal boxes, postcards and shirt boxes. The vibrant and colorful scenes depict the traditional Bethlehem stable against a background of Pribyl’s native Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. The four-tiered dioramas use vivid colors and include numerous characters and animals across scenes of lush green hills, stone buildings, earthy farmhouses, and wooden sheds.
The institute will display the Stockbauer and Staha families’ complete Pribyl nativities, additional components from the Urban and Hauboldt families’ nativities and a two-dimensional Pribyl nativity painting from the Blasche family.
A Salute to Military Flight
Oct. 17, 2009 – July 4, 2010
The Institute of Texan Cultures hosts a three-part exhibit honoring the centennial of military flight in San Antonio. The exhibit offers a look at the birth of military aviation, the local military community through the years and artistic expressions for the love of flight.
TUSKS! Ice Age Mammoths and Mastodons
Sept. 12, 2009 – Jan. 3, 2010
The Institute of Texan Cultures will host TUSKS! Ice Age Mammoths and Mastodons. The traveling exhibit, created by the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Fla., features 80 fossil specimens, replicas and artifacts, along with graphic panels, murals and interactive video modules.
RACE: Are We So Different?
January 23 – May 16, 2010
We all know that people look different. Throughout history, those differences have been a source of strength, community, and personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression.
RACE: Are We So Different? explores three primary themes: the science of human variation, the history of the idea of race, and the contemporary experience of race and racism in the U.S.
Living Texas
This exhibit features interpretive areas that offer guests a firsthand view of early Texans in action.
Texans One and All
The museum’s best-known exhibit showcases more than 20 of the original cultural groups who settled in Texas. Guests will be entertained by hundreds of stories of the state's earliest cultural contributors in this entertaining and interactive exhibit.
Creation and Cosmos
Creation and Cosmos explores the spirituality of creation and the search by a variety of Native American peoples for a place in the cosmos.
S.A.V.I.G.
S.A.V.I.G. is San Antonio Virtual & Interactive Geometry. This exhibit provides students of all ages the opportunity to explore the world of geometry through hands-on experiments and interactive and virtual presentations.
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