Kick Off the Season in a Western Approach on the Briscoe Museum Downtown
Kick off the season with a Comfortable Holidays from the Briscoe: Free Admission for Bexar County and San Antonio Residents!
The Briscoe Western Artwork Museum invitations household and mates to get wrapped up in Western enjoyable on the Briscoe’s annual free Cowboy Christmas, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 1. Cowboy Santa himself will likely be making a particular look, prepared to satisfy younger cowboys and cowgirls and take heed to their vacation needs. Donning his signature Western apparel, Cowboy Santa brings a Texas twist to vacation traditions, making for a singular and memorable photograph alternative. Kids may even have the prospect to create vacation keepsakes by a wide range of crafts that spotlight Western themes and traditions.
Cowboy Christmas encompasses a day of household enjoyable exploring the museum 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. with vacation crafts, and visits with Cowboy Santa 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cowboy Christmas is included with museum admission, making the Briscoe the right approach to get pleasure from vacation enjoyable and make recollections with your loved ones. This yr’s celebration falls on the Briscoe’s month-to-month Locals Day, so all Bexar County and San Antonio residents obtain free admission to benefit from the museum and all the vacation enjoyable.
Add Your Story – Storytellers: Narrative Artwork and the West
Everybody who attends Cowboy Christmas can benefit from the Briscoe’s particular exhibition, Storytellers: Narrative Artwork and the West and add their tales to the exhibition. Discover how artists use narrative artwork to convey historical past, tradition and id by works that inform highly effective tales of the American Southwest. Guiding questions all through the exhibition invite guests to take a more in-depth take a look at the works on show – and dive into the tales they inform – whereas stations within the exhibition ask guests to share their very own tales. Guests can then dangle their story on the exhibition’s neighborhood story wall or follow the strategies of gesture drawing – a fast sketching approach that helps seize the essence of a topic’s pose, motion or expression – and create their very own narrative artwork.
Howdy Neighbors: Methods to Head West and Save
To indicate how pleasant the West is and to thank the San Antonio neighborhood for its continued help, the Briscoe Western Artwork Museum makes the primary Sunday of every month “Locals Day,” greeting locals with free basic admission. Bexar County residents can get pleasure from Cowboy Christmas and Locals Day by registering on-line.
Not an area? The Cowboy Christmas enjoyable is included with basic museum admission. As all the time, youngsters 12 and below obtain free admission on the Briscoe, as do lively responsibility members of the army, making the museum a terrific spot for households so as to add to their vacation plans. Lively responsibility army households obtain half-price admission when accompanied by their lively responsibility member of the family. 12 months-round, retired and former members of the army additionally acquired discounted admission.
The primary weekend of every month additionally contains free museum admission because of Financial institution of America Museums on Us, permitting Financial institution of America, Merrill Lynch and U.S. Belief cardholders to realize one free admission to the museum. By Museums for All, recipients of SNAP, WIC, and MAP obtain free basic admission all year long.
Fill Your Stocking with the Better of the West
For everybody trying to fill their reward lists, the Briscoe’s Hendler Household Museum Retailer options one thing for everybody in your listing. Buying the museum contains vacation finds, residence décor, and presents for males, ladies and kids that aren’t the cookie cutter stuff you’ll see at conventional retailers. Everybody who completes the museum’s scavenger hunt receives a ten% low cost within the Hendler Household Retailer.
Briscoe Days and Hours
Can’t get pleasure from Cowboy Christmas? The museum is open Thursday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Friday by Monday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and closed to the general public on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Briscoe is positioned on the south finish of the River Stroll, close to the Arneson River Theatre and La Villita, with handy parking on the Riverbend Storage straight adjoining to the museum or certainly one of many downtown floor heaps. Museum hours, parking and admission particulars can be found on-line.
