Phoenix offers Hispanic survey celebration and museum projects

[Source: Barbara Stocklin] -- On June 4, Historic Preservation staff joined in the first meeting of the Hispanic Exhibit Advisory Committee at the Phoenix Museum of History. The museum is planning an exhibit based on the history compiled in the Hispanic Historic Property Survey, a project recently completed by the Phoenix Historic Preservation Office. The exhibit will be approximately 1,400 square feet in size and will open this fall, running for at least a year. Once completed, items from the exhibit will be incorporated into the museum's permanent collection. The advisory committee's next meeting will be June 18. Planning efforts are also in process to organize a city-sponsored celebration of Hispanic History and the Phoenix Hispanic Survey during Hispanic Heritage Month in early fall 2007. This event will celebrate the city’s Hispanic Survey Project, the Hispanic historic designations slated for City Council approval in early October 2007, a Channel 11 video on the study to be aired in fall 2007, and the Museum of History exhibit. The date and details of the event should be finalized in the next couple of weeks.