The Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

South Texas Heritage Center

  • Experiential
  • Touch Screens
  • Data Collection

The Witte Museum, San Antonio’s premiere museum of South Texas history, culture, and natural science desired a large scale, interactive table as the centerpiece for the museum’s new South Texas Heritage Center.

Project Details

An interactive installation at the Witte Museum, San Antonio's premiere museum of South Texas history, culture, and natural science. The centerpiece features a map of all the oil wells in Texas plus historic photos and videos about the search for oil.

The 60 inch multi-touch screen table utilizes a custom air application to launch a 27,188 x 20,951 pixel interactive map. Users have the ability to navigate through an aerial survey of 5 counties, showing property lines and corresponding natural gas and oil wells. Users begin their journey with a bird’s eye view of the San Antonio area, and have the ability to drill down to individual properties.

Additional interactives include a photo gallery utilizing historical images to journey back to the heyday of South Texas oil drilling, cattle driving and life in circa 1800 San Antonio. Multiple users are able to interact with the images in concert, and photos can be enlarged, rotated and thrown across the table.

The photo gallery is managed by a simple content management system which allows the museum to add or delete photos from a password protected admin website.

Upon exiting the exhibit, visitors can contribute their own "South Texas Story". The kiosk encourages visitors to share tales of their family’s livelihood, or information about their life, family, culture or traditions.

Experience Overview

All of the interactives at The South Texas Heritage Center utilize a touchscreen interface. Some examples of the features and hardware are:

  • Several large format multitouch displays
  • Digital photo viewing and "tossing"
  • Data collection via a touchscreen exit kiosk
  • Remote content management via a browser based admin website

Experience Showcase

Take a peek at the various experiences found in The Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

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