The UIW Theatre Arts department enjoys access privileges with two local museums for research purposes related to production and course work.
The McNay Art Museum houses the Tobin Theatre Arts Collection, which contains theatre designs in the form of sketches and models from the renaissance to the present and a library of rare theatre books and journals.
The Witte Museum houses a Textile and Dress Collection which contains clothing that dates from the late eighteenth century to the present as well as a rare collection of international folk dress and textiles from the renaissance.
