In 2026, the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum plans to move out of its current headquarters in La Villita, hoping to set up shop at the Kress-Grant Building at 311 East Houston St.
A cultural center, a 500-seat auditorium, and a working lunch counter are all on the drawing board. The goal is to capture a slice of recovering downtown tourism through a multitude of different programming initiatives.
Museum CEO and Director Deborah Omowale Jarmon told the Business Journal the organization is slowly outgrowing its 715-square-foot location, along with offices for leadership on Broadway. “I think that having the opportunity to craft Black space is essential for healing, essential for continued growth and celebration and essential for just general well-being,” he said in a recent interview. “For me, personally, there are almost no places in the city of San Antonio that really have that capacity.”
“There will be continuity between that and museum pieces in that we would essentially have a big exhibit space that is part of the major circulation,” he said. “We see that as a kind of front porch exhibit into each room. So, you may be in the Kehinde Wiley Suite where you have a bunch of Kehinde Wiley art in front of your room that you can go and experience.”
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