The El Paso Museum of History is a museum located in downtown El Paso, Texas which presents information about past 400 years of history in the United States/Mexico border region. The museum has over 16,000 feet of exhibition space.[1] Galleries in the museum feature traveling exhibitions as well as several permanent exhibitions. The museum also presents special programs and has a permanent digital touchscreen wall and a traveling wall. The museum is run by the City of El Paso.
The museum started out as a Cavalry Museum in 1974. At that time, it mainly featured information about "the mounted history of the West" and was considered a "must for horse freaks." In 1980, the name was changed to the El Paso Museum of History. The museum was supervised by the El Paso Museum of Art director until the El Paso Museum of History hired its own director in December 1990.The museum's building was considered undersized and in a poor location, so in 2000, the museum was included as part of a bond issue to build a new museum.The new building, downtown, opened on June 16, 2007. After one year in its new location the museum saw more than 30,000 visitors. The museum is credited with helping "rejuvenate downtown El Paso.
The large touchscreen digital wall, known as "Digie" opened on February 14, 2015. It is the second digital wall in the world and the first in the United States. The wall is made of "five massive touch screens" and presents an interactive, three-dimensional view of the history of El Paso, starting in the late 1600s. Each touch-screen is at 95 inch LED and the digital content is networked to other digital walls in other cities. The wall itself is forty feet long by six feet high.There is also a smaller companion wall which is mobile and able to visit schools, malls and community centers. Digie allows visitors to interact with the wall by searching for information or just by browsing the images shown.
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