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If you want to understand
what makes a place
tick, visit a museum or information center.
This resource guide reviews how these institutions can orient visitors
and engage locals.
FEATURES
An
Open and Shut Case - Melissa Biggs
Anthropology
Guide
Walk
with the Weavers
PLANETA FORUM
Museums
GUIDELINES
FLICKR
Museo
de Arte Popular
Mexico
City Anthropology Museum
World
Museums Group
Museos
de Mexico
Museo
Nacional de Antropologia - Melissa Biggs
Museo
Nacional de Culturas Populares - Melissa Biggs
ONLINE
FLICKR
WIKI
Museums
Museos (Oaxaca)
ONLINE
WIKI
DEFINITIONS
A museum is a 'permanent institution in the service of society
and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves,
researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education,
enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their
environment.'
- International Council of Museums (ICOM)
A FEW WORDS ABOUT MUSEUMS AND MARKETS
Mexico's traditional
markets link the present with the past and the future.
A friend leads first-time visitors through Mexico City's Anthropology
Museum in Chapultepec
Park. He purposefully stops at the maquetas (models)
that depict markets held in the days before the arrival of the Spanish.
Take a look, he says. There is a great diversity of products bartered,
traded and sold.
A day or two later he takes his visitors to a traditional city
market. What do you think the visitors see?
Markets provide a living connection to the past. They impart lessons
that are both educational and nutritional. |
