BY RESERVATION · SAN ANTONIO
Pl. 001 — Lepidoptera / Iridescent Scale
1,284 SPECIMENS CATALOGUED. FOUR OF THEM ARE LYING?
Winter Season 04 — Cabinet of Living Curiosities
A living archive of curiosities from the San Antonio River to the San Antonio Bay.
THU–SUN · ENTry EVERY 30 MINUTES IN GROUPs OF EIGHT
ABOUT 2 HOURS · $65
THE Winter SEASON IS OPEN
01 — On View Now
Exhibitions & Experiments
Exhibition No. 041
Through May 2026
Wingscale — The Optics of Iridescence
A hall of moth and butterfly specimens studied under raking light, where structural color is dissected through diagrams, magnifiers, and living emergence tanks.
Experiment No. 12
Spore Clock — Fungal Timekeeping
Experiment No. 08
Mineral Growth — Crystalline Fields
02 — Cataloged Holdings
Specimen Archive
1,284 records
All
Lepidoptera
Botanica
Minera
Fungi
Coastal
Cat. 0412
Rothschildia orizaba
Lepidoptera — Coastal Bend
Cat. 0388
Physalis coastalis
Botanica — Seed Vessel
Cat. 0356
Papaver dormiens
Botanica — Dried Pod
Cat. 0299
Rhodochrosite vein
Minera — Crystalline
Cat. 0271
Myxomycota aurum
Fungi — Slime Mould
Cat. 0244
Gypsum stratum
Minera — Sediment
03 — Gather
Events Calendar
14
Feb 2026
Night Walk — Moths & Lanternlight
Field Program / Ecological Garden
20:00
21
Feb 2026
Lecture — Structural Color in Nature
Talk / Lecture Hall A
18:30
02
Mar 2026
Workshop — Cyanotype & Specimen Print
Atelier / Print Studio
14:00
04 — From the Notebooks
Field Notes
No. 118 — Jan 30
On the migration of the Queen butterfly
Tracking a late-season drift along the dune line, and what the tattered wings tell us about the season past.
No. 117 — Jan 22
A ledger of spores gathered after rain
Cataloguing the fruiting bodies that appear overnight in the garden beds, pressed and numbered before they collapse.
No. 116 — Jan 15
Reading the grain of a fallen mesquite
Growth rings as a record of drought and flood along the Coastal Bend, annotated for the archive room.
05 — Come In
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A public gathering place on the Texas coast — part cabinet of curiosities, part living laboratory. Wander the archive, sit in the garden, or join a workshop.
Hours
Wed–Sun · 10:00–18:00
Location
San Antonio, TX 78215
Admission
$12 general · Free Thursdays
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