Centennial Museum
August 20, 2026
The El Paso Centennial Museum, founded in 1936 on the campus of the College of Mines and Metallurgy (now the University of Texas at El Paso), emerged from earlier but unsuccessful local efforts to create a museum in El Paso. A major breakthrough came in 1935, when Wallace Perry, editor of the…
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