Folk Medicine Exhibit Opens at Museum of History

Here's something that really touches on one of the themes of sustainability:

Healing Hands, Yolanda Leyva

The El Paso Museum of History presents

Healing Hands& Healing Ways: Traditional Medicine in the Borderlands

The El Paso Museum of History in conjunction  with the University of Texas at El Paso and Museo Urbano present Healing Hands & Healing Ways: Traditional Medicine in the Borderlands, opening Thursday, February 9, 2012. The exhibit, guest curated by Dr. Yolanda Chavez Leyva, is a window into the diversity of healing ways that make up Mexican traditional medicine, historically and today. It is also a testament to the survival of medicinal traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation over millennia.

Healing Hands & Healing Ways is an invitation to experience this healing history and to reconnect with our hearts, our histories, and ourselves.  The exhibit will be open to the public February 10- June 30, 2012.

For more information contact Barbara Angus at 915.351.3588, angusbx@elpasotexas.gov or Yolanda Leyva at 915.747.5508, yleyva@utep.edu.