![]() “Summer Escape: Fairytale Fiesta Exhibit at the Witte Museum,” Inga Cotton, San Antonio Charter Moms, May 13, 2014.“Alien Worlds and Androids: Take a Journey of Science and Creativity at the Witte Museum,” Inga Cotton, Alamo City Moms Blog, February 25, 2014.“H-E-B Body Adventure: Be Healthy and Have Fun at the Witte Museum,” Inga Cotton, San Antonio Charter Moms, July 28, 2014. ![]() “Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed at the Witte Museum,” Inga Cotton, Alamo City Moms Blog, June 3, 2016.“Getting Wild At the New Witte,” Dawn Robinette, Alamo City Moms Blog, March 3, 2017.“The Witte Museum from A Kid’s Eye View,” Amanda Gentis, Alamo City Moms Blog, August 3, 2017.Prey Opens at Witte Museum,” Kathleen Petty, San Antonio Magazine, May 2018 Prey’ dinosaurs at the Witte Museum,” Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, May 16, 2018 “‘Dinosaurs everywhere’ in San Antonio this summer,” Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, May 22, 2018.“Use Your San Antonio Zoo Membership to Explore Zoorassic Park This Summer,” Inga Cotton, San Antonio Charter Moms, May 30, 2018.“Ticket packages available for Witte and zoo dinosaur shows,” Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, June 4, 2018.With these tips about how to save money and how to get there, I hope you and your family enjoy learning about the dinosaurs that used to live here before it became Texas at the Witte Museum’s “Predators vs. Prey” and the San Antonio Zoo’s Zoorassic Park.įor transportation, you can park for free in the Brackenridge Park garage on Avenue B, hire a rideshare, take VIA bus routes 7, 9, 10, 11, or 14 from downtown ( VIVA route 11 includes other cultural attractions), ride the zoo train around Brackenridge Park, or borrow a SWell Cycle. The Dino Size Summer package for $39.99 includes both the Witte’s “Predators vs. The $22 Adventure Pass includes general admission and both the “Confluence and Culture” and “Predators vs. Ticket bundles can save your family money. to 8 p.m., although exhibit surcharges still apply, and summer crowds can be significant. General admission is free on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. We use our membership so often that it has been a great value. One way to save money, especially if you are likely to visit several times over the year, is to buy a family membership prices start at $95 per year. Prey” exhibit carries a surcharge of $8 per person ($7 for members) on top of the cost of general admission to the Witte Museum. Prey,” the Utahraptor is shown with a nice coat of feathers. That is the process of science in action. New fossil discoveries have changed what paleontologists believe dinosaurs looked like. I explained to my daughter, G.N., that when I was growing up, it was rare to see feathers in renderings of dinosaurs. There is a photo opp to capture the moment and share on social media. Young visitors will picking up a brush and digging for fossils. Several displays include tablets that allow visitors to see models of the dinosaurs in augmented reality.Īn interactive display lets visitors get in the picture with the dinosaurs. The exhibit juxtaposes predatory dinosaurs with the herbivores that were their prey, and presents clues about how the prey dinosaurs may have defended themselves with horns, armor, whipping tails, or fast-moving legs.Īnimatronic dinosaurs that move and make sounds are great for capturing the imaginations of young visitors. My son, F.T., snapped this picture of a map showing what the coastline looked like in the past, and where paleontologists have found fossil evidence of the dinosaurs featured in the exhibit. Adams, the Witte Museum’s curator of paleontology and geology, is an expert on the dinosaurs that lived around here millions of year before this land became known as Texas. The exhibit uses fossils, animatronics, and augmented reality to bring these ancient creatures to life.ĭr. Consistent with the Witte Museum’s mission of presenting the deep history of Texas, the dinosaurs featured in the exhibit once inhabited the land that is now Texas. Prey: Dinosaurs in the Land Before Texas” is at the Witte Museum through September 3, 2018. ![]()
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