The food and music was stopped by the pandemic, and on Friday the museum closed its home of 50 years. It plans to reopen downtown.
It was a day of tears, shared memories and hope for the future as the Institute of Texan Cultures ended a run of more than 50 years at the only place it has called home. “It’s a piece of San Antonio history, and we wanted to come out and see it before it’s gone. Things are changing so quickly downtown now,” said Clair Larkin , who brought her children, ages 14 and 9, to start a summer of planned visits to places that connect to local history.
Spurs confirm talks of 'project' at ITC site The place showcased the many peoples of the Lone Star State, and many San Antonians and South Texans passed through it with their families or on school field trips. It hosted the annual three-day, indoor-outdoor Texas Folklike Festival from 1972 until the pandemic shut it down in 2020, a major event that some years drew an attendance of more than 100,000.
nine months ago as the ITC associate vice provost and holds a doctorate in history from Stanford University. “This place has told the big, bold stories of Texas in big, bold ways, and I think if we keep that at our core, then we will be successful moving forward,” she said. hopes to build a new 65,000-square-foot home for the museum, either just east of the Alamo in a parking lot at 320 Bonham St. or at the university’s Southwest Campus at 1123 Navarro St. The site by the Alamo is the preferred one. The Alamo is undergoing a $550 million, public-private makeover expected to increase visitation there from 1.6 million to 2.5 million annually, and the institute hopes to benefit from the added foot traffic. “We can tell complimentary stories,” Perales said.
HemisFair '68 transformed San Antonio Whatever happens to the structure, the institute’s last day there felt like the death of an old friend, said Belinda Gavallos, an 11th-generation San Antonian and descendant of José Antonio Navarro, a signer of the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence.
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