a living land museum on 1200 acres of open space along the banks of the Medina River on the far south side of San Antonio preserving, maintaining and interpreting 10,000 years of continual human habitation
LAND HERITAGE INSTITUTE
A South Texas living land museum
Lifelong learning experiences
Interactive opportunities
Historical, environmental and cultural landscapes
LHI aims to impact the lives of visitors of all ages by:
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• Telling the stories of pre-historic Native American inhabitants, Spanish
colonists, later Western European pioneer settlers and their African slave
enclaves through to the more contemporary Southwestern rancher occupants
of the land
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• Interpreting the frictions and blendings of these cultures has resulted in the
current ethnically rich and multicultural populace of San Antonio that is
uniquely qualified to lead the United States into the coming century
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• providing information about the importance of spending time outdoors,
exercising in and enjoying the natural world
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• providing an outdoor laboratory for training in good stewardship of the
natural environment through demonstrations and discussions of sustainable
environmental land management practices and animal husbandry approaches.
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• using nature and science to inform the arts
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• learning about history and people through the built environment by
preserving of historic structures
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• respecting this place as an archeologically rich site abundant in clues about
the long distant past
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• leading scientists and scholars, in partnership with schools, universities and
students, to new questions and new answers about the past and the future
LHI
mailing address:
114 e. cevallos
san antonio, tx 78204
physical address:
1349 neal rd.
bet. applewhite & pleasanton roads
san antonio, tx 78264
ph. 210.846.9403
fax 210.829.1730