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El Paso Museum of Art-October 2024
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Oct 22, 2024

　　This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but the Southwestern art is terrific, too, and the engaging modern pieces round out the collection nicely. All this and it’s free? Well done, El Paso, well done.

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Border Patrol Museum
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Plaza Theatre
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El Paso Chihuahuas
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El Paso Zoo
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El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso
　　This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but the Southwestern art is terrific, too, and the engaging modern pieces round out the collection nicely. All this and it’s free? Well done, El Paso, well...
Tigua Cultural Center
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　　The surrounding community of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo is sovereign home to the Tigua tribe and is recognized by many as the oldest town in Texas. Despite Spanish influences, the Tigua have strived to retain their identity as the oldest identifiable ethnic group in Texas. At this cultural center you...
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El Paso Holocaust Museum
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