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El Paso Mexican American Cultural Center
Downtown, at the Main Library
A three-story, $15 million cultural center built into the Main Library at Cleveland Square, opened in March 2025 after years of community pressure to build it.
Why go
- Exhibits, performance space and archives dedicated to Mexican American history and art, in a city that is about 80 percent Hispanic.
- It anchors the Día de los Muertos desfile and festival every October.
- The library, the park and the art museum are all right there.
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