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The Institute of Texan Cultures is a museum and library located in HemisFair Park in central San Antonio, Texas. It serves as the state's primary center for multicultural education, with exhibits, programs, and events like the Texas Folklife Festival, an annual celebration of the many ethnicities that make up the population of Texas. The Folklife Festival has been held annually since 1972. A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...
Modern-style library itories and/or access points for maps, prints or other artwork, microfilm, microfiche, audio tapes, CDs, LPs, video tapes and DVDs, and provide public facilities to access CD-ROM databases and the Internet. ...
Downtown San Antonio as viewed from the Tower of the Americas San Antonio is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. ...
State nickname: Lone Star State Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest city Houston Governor Rick Perry Official languages None. ...
1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
The facility originally served as the Texas Pavilion at HemisFair '68 before being turned over the the University of Texas System. It is now part of the University of Texas at San Antonio. HemisFair 68 was the first officially designated worlds fair (or international exposition) held in the Southwest United States. ...
The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ...
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is San Antonio’s largest public university, and currently the second largest university in the University of Texas System in terms of enrollment as of fall 2004 figures, at 26,340 students. ...
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