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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Museum Honors Hispanic Culture (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By Ralph Blumenthal
Published: April 14, 2007

San Antonio, April 12 — With a hot pink carpet on the sidewalk and a 600-piece mariachi band in the wings, this city has swung into fiesta mode to welcome the nation’s largest Latino museum, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.

“This is a piece of activism,” said Henry R. Muñoz III, an architect who raised most of the money for the museum.

Few American cities are more exuberantly tied to life south of the border than San Antonio, where tourists flock to shop its Mexican markets, meander its River Walk and sip margaritas. But despite the persistent efforts of residents, no museum here showcased Hispanic arts. The new museum — the Museo Alameda affiliated with the Smithsonian, or MAS — “more,” in Spanish — changes that.

“It’s making history,” said Rosa Rosales, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a rights group with 150,000 members, who came home to San Antonio from Washington for the opening. “Words cannot express the need. Our history has been ignored.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/us/14museum.html?ref=us

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