Design phase underway for $130M Alamo Visitor Center and Museum

The Alamo Trust and Texas General Land Office (GLO) will work with a newly selected design firm to repurpose the historic Crockett Block and Woolworth buildings on the west side of Alamo Plaza into the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum.

Supported by a $25 million partnership with Bexar County, the museum will feature dynamic installations of the Alamo’s collection of original documents and artifacts. The new facility will be home to the entire Alamo Collection as well as the Phil Collins Collection.

The Visitor Center will be over 100,000 square feet in total, with 32,000 square feet dedicated to museum galleries for programming.

This exhibit space will be in addition to the 10,000 square feet of space found in the upcoming Alamo Exhibit Hall & Collections Building.

The Alamo Hall/Annex, which currently displays 1 percent of the artifacts in the Alamo Collection, will be transformed into an education center.

Topics explored in the museum exhibits will include the Battle of the Alamo, the Texas Revolution, the rise of Texas as a nation and the Alamo’s lasting significance in history, indigenous history in the region, and the San Antonio Civil Rights movement in the space where it happened in the Woolworth building.

Design of the estimated $130 million facility will begin immediately with phased construction starting in 2023. The Alamo Visitor Center and Museum are scheduled to open in 2025.

This story originally published by Strategic Partnerships.