The Centennial Museum is a cultural and natural history museum focusing on the Southwest and Mexico. It fulfills its mission by exhibits, education programs, and research.
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The Centennial Museum is an academic support and outreach unit of the University of Texas at El Paso focusing on the natural history and the indigenous, colonial, pre-urban, and folk cultures of the border regions of southwestern United States and Mexico. The permanent exhibits focus on the natural history, archaeology, and ethnology of the Southwest and Mexico. The Chihuahuan Desert Gardens display
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The Centennial Museum has gradually refined its mission over its now seventy years of life; it is the oldest museum in El Paso and as such was initially El Paso's attic! The vision now is to provide lively displays about the Chihuahuan Desert as habitat and about the animals and peoples that have lived in it, the challenges they face, and the fascination of this, the largest desert in North America
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Highlights Chihuahuan Desert, with more than 625 plants species in garden. No admission fee. Museum open Tues.Sat. 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Garden open dawn to dusk. Univ. Ave. and Wiggins Rd. 915/747-5565. www.museum.utep.edu.
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