The History Museum is closed as we focus our efforts on AREA 21™.
But contact us for special event requests!
Watch this page for re-opening dates.
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SAMSAT History Museum
Our History Museum is located on the Port San Antonio campus near Lackland Air Force Base, a one-minute drive from AREA 21™. See highlights of the SAMSAT collection pending our move into Port San Antonio's Innovation Center.
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Things to see at the History Museum
The capture of an Enigma Coding Machine by the Allies was a major event of WWII. See one of very few remaining.
Datapoint Corporation was a 12,000-employee company in San Antonio with a claim to creating the first personal computer. See the Datapoint collection.
SAMSAT maintains the historical archive for Datapoint Corporation, including computers, other equipment, manuals, and collaterals.
Phototelesis, a spin-off of Datapoint, created a phone that can send and receive pictures. The world's first cameraphone!
Inside a typical phone, there are 350 billion transistors that do the same job as each vacuum tube you see in this picture.
Visit the History Museum
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​FREE (donations welcome)
102 Mabry Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78226
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The Edison collection includes a light bulb made of horse hair, and a 1900s dynamo (below) for energy distribution.
Learn who Nikola Tesla was, how a Tesla coil works, and why the Tesla coil sends energy through the air that turns on the lights. We'll fire up the coil for you!