El Paso Museum of History

06/11/2026

Join us this Saturday for Family Day: Pasos Urbanos! All activities are family-friendly and FREE! Event begins at 11 am at the El Paso Museum of History.

Family Day: Pasos Urbanos III

📆 Saturday, June 13
⏰ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
📍El Paso Museum of History
👦🏽👧🏻 All Ages
🎟️Free Event

Join the El Paso Museum of History for the closing of our “Pasos Urbanos: A Photographic Narrative of Borderlands Downtown Culture” exhibit! This will be the last weekend that the exhibit is open. Visitors will have the opportunity to make their own cyanotype print, take an instant photo, and take a peek through a camera obscura. This is a free event and is open to all ages!

06/11/2026

It’s finally Thursday! You know what that means…Free Yoga Thursdays at the El Paso Museum of History. Join us at 5:30 pm for soothing and strengthening yoga practice.

*Reminder there is a 50 person limit for yoga inside the museum.

06/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our seventh annual Family Day: Pride and the opening of “El Noa Noa: A Memory of Q***r Spaces in Chihuahua, Mexico.”

It is because of your overwhelming support that programs like these happen. We are here to provide a safe space for every community member that calls El Paso home.

We also want to give a big thank you these amazing organizations and vendors that helped make this event possible:

Borderland Rainbow Center
Centre Future
Her Haus
El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso Public Health
El Paso Public Library
El Paso Mexican American Cultural Center
PFLAG El Paso
Sapphic Strolls
El Paso Sun City Pride
Transgender Education Network of Texas
Dos Gatitos Vintage
Last Supper
Los Tres Cochinitos
Ofen and Tassen
Print Meikiando
Mau Staar

06/09/2026

Our Little Barrio is now open! Our new play area is inspired by the historic Segundo Barrio (Second Ward) neighborhood located south of Downtown El Paso. The area runs along the border with Mexico and was historically known as “the other Ellis Island” due to its major port of entry from Mexico.

Inspiration was drawn from locally owned family businesses to the Chicago brick-style tenements, as well as the names, spaces, and places that made up this vibrant urban neighborhood.

The mural that you see painted was created by our very own Marleen Morales. She took iconic businesses that reference Chinese, Black, and Mexican families that lived side-by-side during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Thank you to Nusenda Credit Union's Community Rewards program, we were able to make this project a reality.

06/06/2026

🧱 Adobe Architecture & Old Ways Summer Camp

📆 Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31
⏰ 8 AM to 12 PM
👧🏽👦🏻 Ages 11 to 14 (middle school)
📍 El Paso Museum of History
🎟️ $50 per participant

Youth ages 11 to 14 are invited to join us for a weeklong session led by Ome Tekuani Tlaloc focused on the technique of building from adobe and other natural desert materials. Prior to the 1900s, adobe was a common material for buildings throughout our region due to its ability to keep homes cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Over the course of the week, participants will learn more about this historic practice and will create their own mini casitas to take home. This camp will touch on topics related to local history, Indigenous knowledge, and sustainability.

About the Instructor: Ome Tekuani Tlaloc is a Chicano artist and culture bearer from Little Red Sands in El Paso, TX. His work focuses on honoring and understanding the relationship between people and plants in our desert region. In addition to his work returning adobe techniques to the Paso del Norte area, his practice includes traditional basketry, stonework, jewelry, and herbal remedies. Ome’s knowledge of adobe was passed down to him from his grandparents, who were raised in family-built adobe homes.

Click the link to register: https://epmuseumofhistory.doubleknot.com/event/adobe-architecture-old-ways-summer-camp/3147122

06/04/2026

🧘🏽 Yoga Pride
📆 Saturday, June 6
⏰ 1:00 pm
📍Cleveland Square Park
🎟️ Free

Join us for a special Free Yoga Saturdays: Pride edition! During this 45-minute yoga session you’ll work on heart-opening techniques to revitalizing flows that will focus on self-expression, community, and love. Not only are these poses meant to fortify your body but also focus on self-love and being proud of who you are. No prior yoga experience is required. Bring an open mind and an open heart. We do ask participants to bring their own mat.

06/02/2026

Chew Family Lotus Shoes

After being separated for nearly 90 years, a pair of lotus shoes have been reunited. As part of the Mountain of Gold exhibit, the Chew family loaned their lotus shoe to the El Paso Museum of History. While the shoe was on display at the Museum of History, an intern from the El Paso Museum of Art noticed the resemblance between the lotus shoe on display and a lotus shoe they had previously seen while working on the collection at the El Paso Museum of Art.

Lotus shoes are part of the ancient Chinese beauty tradition of foot binding (chánzú/缠足), a practice that dates back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) and that continued into the 20th century. Foot binding involved tightly binding the feet of young girls to prevent normal growth and development and would mark a girl’s passage from childhood into womanhood.

The lotus shoes are a family heirloom belonging to the Chew family, who have been in the Paso del Norte region for generations. According to oral histories and historical museum provenance records, these lotus shoes were brought from Guangzhou (广州), China to the Paso del Norte region.

One of the lotus shoes was kept as an heirloom by members of the Chew family and passed down from one generation to the next. The other shoe ended up in the possession of the Kirgan’s, a prominent El Paso family involved with the El Paso Children’s Museum. In the 1930s, Mrs. Angelene Jeanne Kirgan donated the El Paso Children’s Museum collection to the Diocese of El Paso. The El Paso Children’s Museum contained a sizeable collection of East and Southeast Asian objects, including the second lotus shoe. The Children’s Museum collection was one of several collections that would eventually be absorbed by the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso’s first official City Museum.

Today, the two shoes are displayed together, representing the Chew family’s long and influential history in our region.

Learn more by visiting our “Mountain of Gold: A History of East and Southeast Asian Cultures in El Paso del Norte, 1880s – 1980s” exhibit at the El Paso Museum of History.

Photos courtesy of the Chew Family
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06/01/2026

We are days away from our seventh annual Family Day: Pride! This year resources and tabling will be provided by:

Borderland Rainbow Center
Centre Future
Her Haus
El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso Public Health
El Paso Public Library
El Paso Mexican American Cultural Center
PFLAG El Paso
Sapphic Strolls
El Paso Sun City Pride
Trans Education Network of Texas

We are also partnering up with amazing Q***r-owned vendors:

Dos Gatitos Vintage
Last Supper
Los Tres Cochinitos
Ofen and Tassen
Print Meikiando

Make sure to join us this Saturday, June 6 from 11 am to 3 pm. Stop by and take part in family-friendly activities!

We’ll see you then!

06/01/2026

Without our community partners, Día de los Mu***os Desfile y Festival would not be possible year after year!

If your business is interested in participating in the parade, or sponsoring a museum activity, the main stage, or a performance, we are hoping to collaborating with you! Our festival continues to grow, with attendance in 2025 reaching 55,000 visitors to the Downtown Arts District throughout the day. Being a part of Día is a great opportunity to connect with the people that help create our beautiful community while honoring passed loved ones and the legacies they leave with us. A big shout out to for presenting the parade - thank you!

If interested in learning more, more info is available at: www.epmacc.org/Dia-de-los-Mu***os or by emailing [email protected]. We hope to hear from you! 🕯️

05/30/2026

One week left before our seventh annual Family Day: Pride event!

🏳️‍🌈 Family Day: Pride

📆 Saturday, June 6
⏰ 11 am - 3 pm
📍 El Paso Museum of History
✨ Free Event

Join the El Paso Museum of History as we celebrate our seventh annual Family Day: Pride with a new pop-up exhibit, Q***r-owned vendor market, free activities, and resource fair! Our new pop-up exhibit highlights the historic Noa Noa, a Juarez based bar and nightclub that operated from 1960s to the 2000s.

Stay tuned for the full line-up!