National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)

Entrance to the Anthropological Museum in Mexico City

The Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA) in Mexico City , in German National Museum of Anthropology , is a museum of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , in which the pre-Columbian past and the living Indian culture of Mexico are exhibited. The built-up area comprises 44,000 m², which is supplemented by 35,700 m² of open space.

architecture

The central courtyard

The museum in Chapultepec Park was planned by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez , Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares in 1963. It consists of a central patio with a connection to 23 exhibition halls. The exhibition area is 79700 square meters. In the center of the patio there is an impressive reinforced concrete-aluminum construction (umbrella) of 54 by 82 meters and a height of 16.80 meters.

history

The museum, designed by architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez , Rafael Mijares Alcérreca and Jorge Campuzano, opened on September 17, 1964 after a construction period of 18 months. The collection itself was created on March 18, 1825 as a university collection, with parts going back to the collection of Lorenzo Boturini de Benaducci . This boturini collection was created between 1735 and 1743 and is the earliest important collection on the history of Mexico.

collection

On the ground floor and partly outdoors, the Indian cultures and epochs of Mexico are presented through an archaeological collection and architectural examples. The most famous and most important exhibit is the Stone of the Sun (Piedra del Sol). The ethnographic halls are located on the upper floor. The current Indian peoples of Mexico with their traditional costumes and examples of their craftsmanship and architecture are exhibited here.

Depiction of the Aztec god Tlaloc at the entrance to the museum
Reproduction of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan
Disc by Mictlantecuhtli
Statue of Chalchiuhtlicue
Cacaxtla bird-man mural
Model by Tenochtitlán
Ocelotl- Cuauhxicalli
Teocalli of the holy war
Statue of Xiuhcoatl
Statue of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue
Sculpture by Xochipilli
Stone of the sun
Skull covered with turquoise
Replic of Codex Borbonicus
Copy of Moctezuma's feather crown
Toniná relief

Dintel 26, Yaxchilan

Jain Island Pottery

Reproduction of the mausoleum of the ruler of Palenque , K'inich Janaab 'Pakal

Death mask by K'inich Janaab 'Pakal

Frieze from Placeres

Mask of Chaac

Zapotec mask of the bat god

Reproduction of grave 105 in Monte Albán

Mixtec pottery

Mixtec pectoral of gold and turquoise, shield from Yanhuitlán

Colossal Olmec head

"Luchador Olmeca "

Tuxtla statuette

Reproduction of the sculpture by Mictlantecuhtli in El Zapotal

Mask from Malinaltepec

literature

Felipe Solís: The National Anthropological Museum. Monclem Ediciones, Mexico City 1999, ISBN 970-9019-00-7 (German translation: Enriqueta Kuhlmann, Andrea Löbau).

Movie

Museums of the world. The Mexico City Anthropological Museum . Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker. Production: Saarländischer Rundfunk / Fernsehen, 1981. 45 'Min.

Web links

Commons : National Museum of Anthropology - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Animated homepage in English and Spanish
Literature from and about Museo Nacional de Antropología in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Literature from and about Museo Nacional de Antropología in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Felipe Solís: National Anthropological Museum. Monclem Ediciones, Mexico City 1999, ISBN 978-88-476-0327-1 (German translation: Enriqueta Kuhlmann, Andrea Löbau), p. 5

19.426111111111 -99.186111111111Coordinates: 19 ° 25 ′ 34 ″ N , 99 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ W.

[1] Felipe Solís: National Anthropological Museum. Monclem Ediciones, Mexico City 1999, ISBN 978-88-476-0327-1 (German translation: Enriqueta Kuhlmann, Andrea Löbau), p. 5