Institute of Texan Cultures
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| UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures | |
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| Established | 1968 |
| Location | San Antonio, Texas |
| Visitor figures | 229,237 (1999)[1] |
| Director | John L. Davis |
| Website | www.texancultures.utsa.edu |
UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures is a museum and library located in HemisFair Park in downtown San Antonio, Texas. It serves as the state's primary center for multicultural education, with exhibits, programs, and events like the Texas Folklife Festival, an annual celebration of the many ethnicities that make up the population of Texas. The Folklife Festival has been held yearly since 1972.
The facility, established by the Texas Legislature on May 27, 1965,[2] originally served as the Texas Pavilion at HemisFair '68 before being turned over to the University of Texas System. It is now part of the HemisFair Park Campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio.[3]
There are displays in the museum representing the following cultures and their impact on the history and development of Texas:
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- African-American
- Belgian
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Jewish
- Lebanese
- Native American
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Swedish
- Swiss
- Tejano
- Wendish
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/public/communications/about_itc.htm Accessed August 27, 2007
- ^ "Handbook of Texas Online - Institute of Texan Cultures". http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/UU/kcu25.html. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ Lewis, Marianne McBride (March 23, 2009). "UTSA adopts two new campus names". utsa.edu (UTSA Today).
[edit] External links
- Institute of Texan Cultures
- A Guide to the University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures Records, 1965-2006
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Coordinates: 29°25′00″N 98°28′56″W / 29.4166667°N 98.48222°W
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