San Antonio Museum of Art - reuse of Lone Star Brewery into museum installations

The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) occupies a converted 19th-century brewery complex on the Museum Reach of the River Walk that was adaptively reused to house galleries and installation spaces. Since opening in the repurposed Lone Star Brewery buildings, SAMA has installed permanent and rotating exhibitions spanning ancient Mediterranean, Asian, and Latin American art. The museum’s transformation of industrial architecture into exhibition installations is documented in local cultural histories.