Anthropology is cancelled! I hate it! I’m done. The Museo Nacional De Antropología was simply too huge to explore in a single day. Want to casually learn about the Aztecs, Mayans, and Olmecs (not to mention numerous other Mesoamerican civilisations) in a couple of hours? Forget it. Either your brain or your feet will break first. I was even openly relieved that half of the (very lovely) ethnography galleries dedicated to modern-day Mexican Indigenous groups were closed for renovation. Terrible, I know. But in all seriousness, this is one impressive museo. Truth be told, I don’t even think I go to museums for specific content half the time. I enjoy the layout, aesthetics, and curation-as-artform of a good museum above all. And I’m intrigued by how museums can serve as vehicles for the mindset of a society’s intellectual and cultural elite. This one certainly ticked all the boxes. Things I learnt about the cruelly civilised Mesoamerican universe from this museum:
(Also, I also learnt that the big Olmec heads, Aztec sun stone, and spooky statues are pretty rad to look at.)
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AuthorMing is an economist, traveller, and creative writer from Melbourne, Australia. He’s a nebulous collection of particles on the lookout for a good corner to sit with a book and a cup of coffee. Archives
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