Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

The San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum will create the Breaking Ground initiative to promote cross-cultural understanding among diverse immigrants and help foster a positive future for immigrant children. Building on its experience in outreach to Latino and Vietnamese communities, the museum will engage South Asian, Indian, Filipino, Chinese, and Taiwanese communities to develop and pilot-test programs using food as an expression of culture to share ethnic traditions. Through community dialogues during meals, the project will identify participatory experiences and cross-cultural intersections to be presented in the museum. Platforms will include a Foodways Corner to showcase cultural food traditions in person and through video narratives; Foodways Garden Beds where community volunteers select, plant, and tend produce; and Foodways Video Narratives, virtual experiences available through social media channels.