Museum

Fort Sam Houston Museum

Fort Sam Houston · Bexar County · Dedicated 1967 · THC Atlas #4200000362

Texas history, up close and curated.

About this site

Fort Sam Houston Museum is a museum in Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County, dedicated in 1967. It is one of 18 museums documented in Bexar County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 525 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.4445, -98.4614 near Fort Sam Houston. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Sam Houston, 4th U.S. Army Headquarters Quadrangle (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Bullis House, Belgian Transit of Venus Observation Site, and Post Chapel, Fort Sam Houston.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000362. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Housed in a 1905 mess hall within the historic Quadrangle at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, this museum interprets the history of the post from its 1876 establishment to the present. Its collection of roughly 8,200 artifacts covers the U.S. Army in South Texas across ten major periods of the post's development, with a focus on San Antonio and the traditions of Army medicine. Fort Sam Houston is a National Historic Landmark and the city's first permanent U.S. military installation.

Sources: history.army.mil jbsa.mil en.wikipedia.org

📍 29.4445, -98.4614 · Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County

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