Working professionals, successful in their work, might be more relevant to the ITC programs than planning consultants from other areas. Involve distinguished Texas historians, local and state-wide, along with experienced and successful museum professionals in the state and locally, in the planning.I know new buildings are expensive endeavors, but it can't be cost effective to maintain – never mind upgrade - the current building. It could be a fraction of the size, yet accomplish so much more. A new ITC building doesn't need to be as big as it is now. As painful as it will be for a small number of community members, the ITC needs to get out of the building.Offer discounts for people wanting to visit more than one. Have a special bus or train line that connects the museums to one another. Form a consortium of San Antonio museums, working together to promote history, the arts, science, culture, and each other.Many are missing from what are currently there. Covering every culture in Texas is not sustainable. Most of them are very dated and not engaging. We should expand and make more relevant the African American exhibit. Not be so dependent on those old exhibits - most of them have timelines that stop in 1968.On site classes for students interested in history, culture, and archival, museum studies.Seek inclusivity where no one is left out.Include a SAPL area, could be focused on TX history or cultura, several things - but academic.Improve technology to provide more hands-on engagement for patrons that choose to wander the museum - or like a DoSeam for Texan history.Give the guest the tools they need to make relevant connections. Examples could be evolution of technology, adaptation and resources, parallel living experiences based upon culture, education in early Texas, entrepreneurship and migration, etc. Work with museum staff to create tours (or map programs due to COVID) that highlight important themes relevant to the guest.In a world gone digital, it's important to share in this part of our heritage. Keep/Enhance the exhibits with real people, real plants, real homesteads, etc.Include areas of our history we might not be so proud of.Re-center local indigenous groups in policy and decision making to create input for exhibits and programming to uplift lived experience in daily lives of contemporary people to connect the past histories.Outdoor community garden and performance space for meditation, outdoor classes, music, storytelling.Hands on activities to engage children.New technologies/event space/children's play space (Witte museum as a model - indoor remodel, May's Family Center, and H-E-B Treehouse).Better land development with architects and developers. ITC has such a good location yet nobody really knows about it or visits it.It is important to make sure all stories are told and we do not try to edit out what is uncomfortable to try to make others happy. As an institute of cultures, the ITC should be addressing all aspect of culture, even if it is controversial to get these important conversations going.Demo the current structure to allow for more density and connectivity to the neighborhoods and Hemisfair.Work in partnership with all school districts 7th grade Texas History classes, continue the Folklife Festival, have the museum open during UTSA football games and Alamodome activities to encourage visitors.My main concern at the moment is the actual modernization of the complex/grounds itself.Involve everyone and inspire to be a cultural leader. Make it part of Texas heritage history week in schools.Develop annual themes and engage community members, both children and adult in exploring and contributing to them.Dedicate part of museum to fostering today's cultures and forecasting into future. Represent all facets, geographies and inputs to Texas culture. Current tourist brochures do not give much information about the ITC and its current location.
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