The witte museum in SAN antonio, texas, will strengthen community engagement in its H-E-B body adventure, an innovative model of collaborative museum-civic engagement that provides essential data to…

The Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas will strengthen community engagement in its H-E-B Body Adventure exhibition and upgrade digital technologies through a $102,143 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program. The Museum will redesign components of its interactive health education exhibition to invigorate the experience for visitors and integrate vaccine awareness content in response to COVID-19 community needs as defined by the local Metropolitan Health District. The upgrades will allow the Museum to continue delivering health messages playfully and supportively through its innovative model of collaborative civic engagement that provides data to improve community health and address childhood obesity in the region.

The witte museum in SAN antonio, texas, will strengthen community engagement in its H-E-B body adventure, an innovative model of collaborative museum-civic engagement that provides essential data to improve community health. The exhibition answers a community-wide call for solutions to a childhood obesity epidemic, using digital technologies to deliver health education messages playfully and powerfully in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment. The museum will invigorate the exhibition experience by redesigning and upgrading the you are what you drink and south texas trailblaze components and adding a virtual tag element focused on heart health and physical activity. In response to the covid-19 pandemic and community health needs defined by SAN antonio's metropolitan health district, the museum will integrate vaccine awareness into the exhibition content.