Tag: México
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Choco-Story Museum – Playa del Carmen, Mexico 🇲🇽
This museum, which we visited during a long weekend that we spent at Playa del Carmen in Mexico, presents a great opportunity to immerse yourself in a fascinating journey through the history and art of chocolate, from its origins to its arrival in Europe and its transformation into the world’s (or almost everyone’s) favorite sweet.…
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Diego Rivera’s House Museum – Guanajuato, Mexico 🇲🇽
Diego Rivera’s birthplace is now an excellent museum honoring the famous artist, who was persona non grata here for years. Rivera and his twin brother were born in the house in 1886 (Carlos died at age two) and lived here until the family moved to Mexico City six years later. The museum’s ground floor is a re-creation…
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Izamal Cultural Center – Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico 🇲🇽
We visited this cultural center located in Izamal, in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. We spent some vacation days and New Year’s Eve in Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and took advantage of it to go to the town of Izamal, located around 40 minutes to the east of Merida. Just…
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Mayan World Museum of Mérida, Mexico 🇲🇽
We visited this museum while spending some vacation days and New Year’s Eve in Mérida, Mexico, in December 2023. The museum is aimed to celebrate the Maya culture and it houses a permanent collection of more than 1100 remarkably well-preserved artifacts, including a reclining chac-mool sculpture from Chichén Itzá and a cool underworld figure unearthed…
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Juan Beckman Gallardo Cultural Center – Tequila, Jalisco. México 🇲🇽
We visited this Cultural Center during a one-day trip to Tequila, Jalisco. We arrived there through the charming “Tequila Cuervo Train” that departs from Guadalajara and which takes around two hours. The Juan Beckman Gallardo Cultural Center holds different exhibitions, including a series of 17th to 19th-century carriages. Inside the building, there is a collection…
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Book Review: El Conejo en la Cara de la Luna – Ensayos sobre la mitología de la tradición mesoamericana
Decidí comprar este libro durante una visita rápida a la librería del Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) en Toluca, mi ciudad natal. El título y descripción general del libro atrajeron mi atención, al ilustrar aspectos interesantes de tradiciones mesoamericanas. El libro está escrito por Alfredo López Austin, quien es considerado uno de los más destacados…
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National Museum of Mexican Art. Pilsen, Chicago.
This is a Museum that, as a Mexican, I was looking forward to visit after we moved to Chicago. We decided to visit it for a special Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibition in late October 2019. Founded in 1982, the museum aims to represent the Mexican community from their own point…
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