THIS SUNDAY, Dec 3, the Briscoe Rolls Out the Crimson Carpet for the Massive Man Himself with FREE Vacation Enjoyable
This Sunday get wrapped up in Western enjoyable and meet Cowboy Santa on the Briscoe Western Artwork Museum’s annual free Cowboy Christmas, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 3. Cowboy Christmas is included with museum admission, making the Briscoe the proper option to get pleasure from vacation enjoyable and make reminiscences with your loved ones, particularly since this 12 months’s celebration falls on the Briscoe’s month-to-month “Locals Day”. On Locals Day, all Bexar County residents obtain free admission to benefit from the museum.
Cowboy Christmas includes a day of household enjoyable exploring the museum with vacation crafts and visits with Cowboy Santa 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Households are welcome to snap footage with Cowboy Santa, whereas a particular 12 Days of Christmas scavenger hunt leads you thru the Briscoe’s unbelievable assortment. Christmas crafts, together with decoration making, will give everybody a little bit of the West to take house. And naturally, a stroll by way of the museum’s McNutt Sculpture Backyard is the proper path to benefit from the River Stroll and all its vacation magnificence.
Vacation Enjoyable with American Cowboys: Anouk Masson Krantz
Everybody who attends Cowboy Christmas can step into the intimate lives and tradition of immediately’s cowboys by way of a showcase of gorgeous black and white images throughout Anouk Masson Krantz: “American Cowboys”, the Briscoe’s exhibition that highlights the enduring traditions round ranching and rodeo life from an outsider’s perspective. American Cowboys shares an intimate have a look at America’s Western heritage by way of almost 100 pictures captured on solo journeys throughout the American West by the celebrated photographer Anouk Masson Krantz.
A French fine-art photographer and creator primarily based in New York Metropolis finest identified for her American Western work, Krantz has logged greater than 125,000 miles touring the West by herself in her quest to disclose the genuine day by day lives of humble and virtuous American cowboy. Krantz’s pictures has acquired worldwide acclaim, together with the 2023 Western Heritage Award for her newest artbook, “Ranchland: Wagonhound”. The exhibition is included with museum admission and is on view by way of Jan. 22, 2024.
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 normal 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 normal museum admission. As all the time, youngsters 12 and beneath obtain free admission on the Briscoe, as do lively obligation members of the navy, making the museum a terrific spot for households so as to add to their vacation plans. Lively obligation navy households obtain half-price admission when accompanied by their lively obligation member of the family. 12 months-round, retired and former members of the navy 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 way of Museums for All, recipients of SNAP, WIC, and MAP obtain free normal 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 record. Procuring the museum contains vacation finds, house décor, and items for males, ladies and youngsters that aren’t the cookie cutter belongings you’ll see at conventional retailers. One thing positive to be widespread in Cowboy Santa’s bag of items this 12 months: reward memberships to the Briscoe. Membership contains free and discounted museum occasion admission, unique member occasions and a lot extra, all on the banks of the River Stroll.
Head West within the Coronary heart of Downtown
The Briscoe’s assortment of Western artwork and artifacts showcases the tales of the West by way of visible artwork. The museum’s everlasting assortment of Western artwork and artifacts, together with exhibitions that spotlight the tales of the American Indian, cowboys, pioneering ladies and others that outline the West. Assortment highlights embody Santa Anna’s sword, works by Frederic Remington, Pancho Villa’s final identified saddle, a unbelievable Alamo diorama and artifacts, modern and historic work, sculptures, a formidable spur assortment, and different cowboy and Native American relics, weapons and pictures.
The museum is open Thursday by way of Monday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and closed to the general public on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Briscoe is situated on the south finish of the River Stroll, close to the Arneson River Theatre and La Villita, with handy parking on the Riverbend Storage instantly adjoining to the museum or one in every of many downtown floor heaps. Museum hours, parking and admission particulars can be found on-line.
