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The Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center at the Witte Museum FAST FACTS
The Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center at San Antonio's Witte Museum serves as a repository for the Wittes vast and remarkable collection of South Texas historical artifacts, and marks the first time this rich heritage and history of South Texas has been readily accessible in a permanent public collection. The 20,000-square-foot, two-story building incorporates the historic Pioneer Hall, and serves as a permanent home for the Wittes South Texas collections, exhibitions and public programs, combined with the latest museum technology, to trace the legendary history of South Texas.

Grand Opening: May 26, 2012 Guest Curator: Bruce M. Shackelford Admittance (as of June 2012): Included in general museum ticket price: Adults (ages 12-64) - $10.00 Active Duty Military (with ID) - $9.00 Seniors (ages 65 and up) - $9.00 Children (ages 4-11) - $8.00 Ages 3 and younger - FREE Conceptual Timeline: 1850-1950 Artifact Timeline: 16th-20th centuries
The South Texas Heritage Center at Night

Key Exhibit Areas: Freighters Main Plaza Early years in South Texas (indigenous peoples, the Missions, early settlers) Ranch Life (cattle, horses, sheep, goats) Trail drives (vaqueros, cowboys, Chisholm and Great Western Trails, Texas ranch women) Conflict (jail, law enforcement, roots of San Antonio as a military town) Transforming landscapes (water and irrigation, railroads, roads and vehicles, drilling for oil) Mapping the land (surveying in the 1800s Tobin aerial surveying, mapping the underground, seismography) High-tech Museum Components: Cinematic robots Touch-screen computers Motion-trigger audio personas Sound and lighting effects Curators Top Picks: Colonial spur Menger Hotel register Colt Walker revolver Davy Crocketts fiddle Samuel Mavericks Cherokee coat Sam Houstons Sash San Jacinto Battlefield Bowie knife Comanche headdress Colt model 1851 Navy revolver with ivory grips carved with eagle and snake 1850s Texas saddle J. Frank Dobie branding iron Vaquero and cowboy chaps and spurs Mud Wagon from the King Ranch Named Galleries and Facilities: Ewing Halsell Entry Hall Robert and Patty Hayes Cantina Gallery Mays Family Main Plaza Gallery Frost Banking Gallery Carl H. Guenther Mercantile Gallery Dolph Briscoe Ranching Gallery Alex Halff Family Farming Gallery L. A. and Pearl Nordan Range Management

Greehey Family Foundation Transforming Landscapes Gallery Petty Family Oil and Gas Gallery Edgar Tobin Map Gallery McCombs Family Foundation Rotunda Russell Hill Rogers Texas Art Gallery Will Smith Classroom Will Smith Amphitheater Jessica Hobby Catto Garden

Benefactors:
The Witte Museum thanks the following friends who have contributed to the success of the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center:
Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation Governor Dolph Briscoe* Greehey Family Foundation Ewing Halsell Foundation Mays Family Foundation The Nordan Trust Scott Petty Foundation Will Smith Foundation Frost Bank Charitable Foundation The Sally and Alex* Halff Family C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc. Institute of Museum and Library Services Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Tobin Endowment McCombs Foundation Nora and Steve Burkhart Jessica and Henry Catto* Mary West and Richard Traylor Dickson-Allen Foundation Laura and Sam Dawson City of San Antonio AT&T The Summerlee Foundation Kathy and Ty Griesenbeck The Guido Family in honor of Antoinette and Cosmo Guido Kathleen and Curtis Gunn Lou Eda Korth Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Peeler, Jr in memory of Alonzo Peeler Sr. Julie and Justin Peeler in honor of Alonzo Peeler, Jr. Lindsay Ranch, Ltd. R. J. Welder Ranch, Ltd. in honor of Heather and Raymond Welder T Bar L Ranches in memory of Travis H. Lynch Michelle and A. H. Cadwallader Leighton and James Donnell in memory of Roy Beall Lowe and James W. Donnell Perry Donop Downie Ranch, est. 1881 Jack and Linde Judson Virginia Nicholas

Joseph Orr in memory of William Green Butler San Antonio de Mira Flores Ranch, est. 1897 The Sellers Family in memory of William Jefferson Porter Ida Clement Betty Culhane Santa Fe East Lou Celia and Don Frost Pat and Tom Frost Henrietta Hildebrand Janey Briscoe Marmion Edwin M. Jones Foundation Frankie and Charles Dicke Missy Finck John Jockusch Ida Mae and Billy Wayne Kaiser Bonnie Sue and Donald Jacobs
Gifts as of March 19, 2012 *deceased