Welcome to the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center! 

After years of grass-root organizing by community and Board Members, the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center (CPMCC) facility is open at last as of October 8, 2022. The CPMCC has served as an educational and cultural hub by providing resources, programming, and care to the community since its inception in 2015.

¡Vivan los Pueblos Unidos! 

The Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center recognizes the territory of the Kumeyaay whose lands were colonized by Europeans and are occupied by the State of California. We acknowledge the actions of our past, our present, and how these actions have developed systems of oppression rooted in settler colonialism that marginalized disenfranchised peoples. We condemn the acts of evil including genocide and forced assimilation done in the name of white supremacy and the continued oppression of Indigenous peoples on the unceeded lands that belongs to them throughout the Americas.

The Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center’s vision is to work in rectifying these wrongs and to provide a community space for dialogue and education. As part of the deeper legacy established by the Chicano Park Steering Committee and the park takeover, we will join in the struggle to dismantle all legacies of violence and work to support and empower those who have been marginalized in our nation and the world. It is our goal to continue the process of decolonizing the mind and proactively integrating this process through our words and actions.

El Museo y Centro Cultural del Parque Chicano reconoce el territorio de los Kumeyaay, cuyas tierras fueron colonizadas por europeos y están ocupadas por el Estado de California. Reconocemos las acciones de nuestro pasado, de nuestro presente y cómo estas acciones han desarrollado sistemas de opresión arraigados en el colonialismo de los colonos que marginó a los pueblos privados de sus derechos. Condenamos los actos de maldad, incluido el genocidio y la asimilación forzada realizada en nombre de la supremacía blanca y la continua opresión de los pueblos indígenas en las tierras no cedidas que les pertenecen en todo el continente americano.

La visión del Museo y Centro Cultural del Parque Chicano es trabajar para rectificar estos errores y proporcionar un espacio comunitario para el diálogo y la educación. Como parte del legado más profundo establecido por el Comité Directivo del Chicano Park y de la Toma del Parque, nos uniremos a la lucha para desmantelar todos los legados de violencia y trabajaremos para apoyar y empoderar a aquellos que han sido marginados en nuestra nación y en el mundo. Nuestro objetivo es continuar el proceso de descolonizar la mente e integrar proactivamente este proceso a través de nuestras palabras y acciones.

¡Vivan los Pueblos Unidos!

-Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center

2022 Year Recap:

2022 has been a monumental year for the CPMCC, as we commemorated and supported our community and Chicano Park in various ways throughout the year. The CPMCC has marked a revolutionary impact in the Barrio/Logan Heights community and Chicano history and will continue to serve as a site of resilience through art, history, and science. View our Year Recap below!