Texas has a hard time telling its complete story. The good, the bad, and the ugly don’t always make the cut. But just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month, a group of San Antonio leaders are taking steps to preserve Mexican American history.
The first-ever Mexican American Civil Rights Museum will be between 10,000 and 15,000 square feet on the west side of San Antonio, and it’ll be located at one of five potential sites after a 10-month feasibility study spearheaded by the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute and a local architecture firm, according to Axios.
“For us to bear witness to the creation of the nation’s first Mexican American Civil Rights Museum, which will be here in San Antonio — the cradle of Mexican American Civil Rights, and the Mexican American cultural capital of the U.S. — this is a big moment,” Sarah Zenaida Gould, executive director of the institute, told the San Antonio Report. The museum’s estimated costs to build are between $15 million and $20 million It’s unclear when they hope to open the doors to the public.
“Mexican Americans have for generations contributed to creating a more perfect union, expanding civil rights, to ensuring that we have equality for all,” Gould told Texas Public Radio. “Unless you’re a historian, you don’t necessarily know those things and we think that we should know those things.”
Read more in Axios.