Artistic passion flows throughout the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, where they strive to enrich the quality of life by creating art programming and helping people experience art. Being a leader in arts & culture, they manage two free art galleries, welcome film productions, and provide grants to individual arts and nonprofit organizations so they can continue to provide entertainment and education.
Candlelight Pourhouse possesses a special kind of spirit. If you prefer wine to coffee or coffee to wine, they offer both with a full café menu. For coffee enthusiasts, Candlelight offers a memorable coffee experience. For wine lovers, pick from a wide selection of wines and take any unfinished bottle home. If coffee or wine isn’t your game, order a meal from our kitchen, or stop by on the weekends for brunch.
Discover how experience grows curious minds, connects families, and transforms communities at the DoSeum, voted the best children's museum in the nation by USA Today. Empower your kids to be creative with various lights and sound phenomena at the Sensations Studio. Allow them to join the Spy Academy as they get to solve their way through a covert mission as a master spy. Permit them to experience the child-sized utopia in Little Town with immersive environments like an airplane, a trolly car, a VetOffice, a Taco Truck, and even an H-E-B. Let them tinker with simple machines as they imagine, create, and build at the Innovation Station, and unleash their story-making skills in an environment-based scenario at Imagine It! station.
Visit a historically unique location that is known as one of the most beautiful buildings in San Antonio, the Spanish Governor's Palace. This National Historic Landmark represents the last visual remnants of the Presidio San Antonio de Béjar. It was the original residence and working office for the captains of the military garrison from 1722 until the early 1800s. Learn about Texas's earliest history under Spanish rule. Tour the rooms furnished with Spanish Colonial period pieces and be delighted with the beautifully landscaped gardens in the courtyard.