Our permanent museum exhibition is FREE and open during regular business days,
Monday-Friday, from 8am-5pm
We’re located in the Historic 1904 County Courthouse, 21 East Court Street, Nogales, AZ
We’re right in the heart of Nogales’s arts district and just steps away from Arizona’s busiest border crossing into Mexico!
Alfredo Velasquez
County Superintendent of Schools
Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Students are a depiction of the future and our educational community works hard to keep it bright. To sustain a standard of educational excellence the Superintendent’s office steadily collaborates and communicates with schools, teaching professionals, and other educational contributors.
We strive to provide every school with the resources necessary to succeed. Our efforts provide assets for students such as counseling services, educational programs, and other beneficial academic institutions. Additionally, our toil also affords professional development for teachers and other academic mavens. The department’s objective is to foster educational opportunities in Santa Cruz County and manage capital to fortify a foundation of scholars. Furthermore, our maxim is to coordinate resources, maintain standards of education, and continue to support scholastic functions to a prosperous educational system.
Carlos Francisco Parra
“Beyond Fronteras” Project Coordinator and Curator
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Arizona
Dr. Parra developed the “Beyond Fronteras: The Nogales and Santa Cruz County History Project” under an Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Grant provided by the Arizona Department of Education to the Santa Cruz County School Superintendent’s Office.
Parra drew from his experience in the Smithsonian Institution’s Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP) and his consulting work for the National Museum of American History’s “De Ultima Hora: Latina Journalists Report Breaking News” exhibition to create Nogales, Arizona’s first fully bilingual local history exhibition. Parra coordinated the development of the Beyond Fronteras multimedia project’s lesson plans, extracurricular student programming, video documentaries, and designed this educational website.
Parra is a former Nogales High School teacher, a doctoral graduate from the University of Southern California, a former Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and is an inaugural fellow of the UA’s Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
