El Paso Museum of History

🧱 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

🧘🏽 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.

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 Queer-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!

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! 🕯️

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, Queer-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!

Today’s Free Yoga Saturdays class has been canceled. Please join us next weekend for free yoga.

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.

The Edquid Family and Manila Drive

Sergeant Antero D. Edquid was an enlisted Filipino soldier serving with the United States during World War II. While serving in the Philippines, Sergeant Antero met Uldarico M. Edquid, Arthur Edquid, and their mother, who had lived through the Japanese invasion of the Philippine Islands in 1941. Sergeant Antero Edquid married Uldarico and Arthur’s mother and always referred to the two sons as his own.

In 1948 after the end of World War II, the family immigrated to the United States from the Philippine Islands. Arthur attended Ysleta High School and joined the U.S. Army in 1951. He went on to serve in the Korean War and received several medals of recognition for his service. Uldarico attended Jefferson High School before enrolling in the U.S. Navy in 1954.

The Edquid Family is considered one of the earliest recorded Filipino families in El Paso. Members of the Filipino community frequently mention that the Edquid family played a key role in the city, welcoming new Filipino families and frequently hosting Filipino celebrations and gatherings. They owned a large piece of land in Northeast El Paso, believed to have been situated where present-day Manila Drive is located. According to Filipino elders, part of the agreement when the land was annexed by the City of El Paso was that the street would be named Manila Drive in honor of the Filipino families who had built their community there.

Photos courtesy of the Caigoy Family

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

The El Paso Museum of History administrative office will be closed Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. Our offices will reopen Tuesday, May 26.

Visit the museum Wednesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm.