San Antonio Children’s Museum

Set within the shell of a decades-old department store building, the Museum is a child-friendly facility whose ambience joyfully reflects the city in which it resides. The 90 exhibits offer learning experiences appropriate for the museum’s 2- to 10-year-old audience; the visual references to San Antonio build civic awareness. These exhibits include a working child-powered elevator, a contraption that allows users to create bubbles big enough to envelope a person, a working kid-scaled trolley, a bicycling skeleton, an airplane fuselage and control tower, a printing press, an agricultural station and a 15-foot-tall model of the Edwards Aquifer.

Funded entirely by donations from community organizations, private citizens and corporations, the project also required the architects to adapt to frequent budgetary changes. Architectural drawings were provided to enhance presentations to potential donors during the 24-month fundraising campaign.

More than 1 million visitors have explored the Children’s Museum since its opening.

Client> San Antonio Children’s Museum
Construction Cost> $1,200,000
Completion> September 1995