San Antonio, Texas: Museum Analysis

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in San Antonio, Texas there is a new museum dedicated to showing latino arts, culture, and history.
The museum anticipates more than 400,000 people to visit yearly.
Before entering the museum there can be seen the first exhibit. It is a large aluminum plate wall designed to look like a luminaria.
When the museum first opened it featured 26 foot mural called ´´Somos´´. It also included pre-Columbian vessels, an emerald ring belonging to a former mexican emperor, and a pearl and gem necklace made by Paloma Picasso.
As of 2008, the museum will have an exhibit examining african contributions to mexican

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