The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum

📍 Taxidermists in San Antonio

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The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum in San Antonio offers a unique blend of history, taxidermy, and entertainment. The museums, including the Buckhorn and Texas Ranger exhibits, showcase impressive collections of taxidermy animals, historical artifacts, and quirky curiosities like a PT Barnum sideshow and a jail cell exhibit. The immersive experience is enhanced by engaging displays and a well-curated gift shop.

Adjacent to the museums, the saloon features a lively bar and a restaurant serving solid food, complemented by a fun arcade and shooting gallery. While the venue has a tourist-friendly appeal, its eclectic charm and informative exhibits make it a worthwhile stop for visitors exploring downtown San Antonio.

Features and services of The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum

Service options
  • On-site services
Highlights
  • Bar games
  • Fast service
  • Great beer selection
  • Great cocktails
  • Live performances
Popular for
  • Solo dining
Offerings
  • Alcohol
  • Arcade games
  • Food
  • Food at bar
Amenities
  • Wi-Fi
Atmosphere
  • Casual
  • Cosy
Crowd
  • Groups
  • Tourists
Parking
  • Paid parking lot
  • Paid street parking

The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum is in position 3 out of 11 in taxidermists in San Antonio

Customer Reviews

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The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum has a rating of 4.4 out of 5 based on over 3166 reviews on Google

Eran Maia

Friendly staff and very immersive experience in the museum! Lots to see and learn! Take your time while visiting, as it can get overwhelming for young kids. They even have a PT Barnum section, which surprised us! Fun to learn and walking into a jail cell next to a snoring inmate was hilarious. Gift shop was very interesting as well. Highly recommend!

Eran Maia ☆ 5/5
Nick DeMarco

Pretty large restaurant, bar, and museum in downtown San Antonio. The saloon/restaurant is really cool, covered from top to bottom in taxidermy animals. Lots of cool history on the walls. The place also has two museums, the Buckhorn Museum and the Texas Ranger Museum. The Buckhorn Museum has a bunch of taxidermy animals and other curiosities. The sideshow exhibit was neat...but some parts of it weren't working. The Texas Ranger museum houses a nice collection of artifacts from various famous Texas Rangers, as well as a recreation of old San Antonio. A plus is that you get to carry around a beer from the bar while visiting the museums. Had lunch at the end of my visit and the food was pretty solid. There's a lot to see here and you can certainly spend a good deal of time here between the various exhibits and the food/drink. It's definitely a little tourist-trappy, but still worth a visit if you are in the downtown area.

Nick DeMarco ☆ 4/5
Stella Hilario

Had some family come into town and we were looking for different things to check out downtown and this saloon came up. To be honest we didn’t know what to expect but we really did enjoy ourselves. The food/burgers were really good, the staff were friendly and helpful when purchasing our museum tickets. We took our time walking through the museums (about an hour and half) and made sure to grab a magnet to remember it by when we left. Their gift shop has some really nice Texas inspired merchandise, don’t skip it. We will go back, at least for the burgers.

Stella Hilario ☆ 5/5
Tammy Hobbs

This is an eclectic place with a museum for $22 a person which we did not go through. As far as bar food goes you have to go up and order and then they deliver to your table. My husband had the musket fire burger and it was large and he said good came with onion rings. I had the cowboy quesadilla and was extremely disappointed for several reasons. One it doesn't look anything like the picture in the menu imagine it with half of the amount of food in it and was greasy. The plus side of my meal was at the french fries were crunchy light and had a little flavoring to them. Add two Cokes to this and it was $45. It is an interesting place but if you really want a dinner I wouldn't recommend it.

Tammy Hobbs ☆ 3/5
Kyle Hope

If you are a person that enjoys seeing some EXCEPTIONAL Boone & Crockett Class Big Game this is somewhere you'd want to see. Some incredible Old Trophy taxidermy mounts and an amazing old building close to the historic Alamo👍👍

Kyle Hope ☆ 5/5
Jose Garcia

This place is good ole fashioned cool It’s two museums in the location one was taxidermy and the other was about the Texas rangers !! They even had a replica of the Bonnie and Clyde car They also had food and great beers and a arcade with a shooting gallery The gift shop was also alright Would definitely come again

Jose Garcia ☆ 5/5
Ashley Gannon

Very fun restaurant with good food. Museum had different fun areas and the Texas Ranger Museum was very informative.

Ashley Gannon ☆ 5/5
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Information about The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum

Address

The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum is located at 318 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX 78205, United States

Phone

The phone number of The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum is +1 210-247-4000

Website

The website of The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum is: buckhornmuseum.com/cafe-saloon

Business Hours

Monday: 10:00–17:00
Tuesday: 10:00–17:00
Wednesday: 10:00–17:00
Thursday: 10:00–17:00
Friday: 10:00–18:00
Saturday: 10:00–18:00
Sunday: 10:00–17:00

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