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MuseumsSite Name: Museo Nacional de Antropología
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 0.831 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Mexico Other Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Latitude: 19.426400N  Longitude: 99.1866W
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Jansold visited on 17th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5

MartinJEley visited on 7th Feb 2010 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 An excellent museum with many artifacts well displayed. I was particularly impressed by the size of the famous Aztec Calendar Stone. Despite only having a couple of hours I saw most of the museum and took many photographs. As I left I had the opportunity to enjoy a display of Native Pole Flyers.

Tdiver visited on 1st Jan 1992 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

DrewParsons neolithique02 have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 5 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 5

Museo Nacional de Antropología
Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by neolithique02 : See more photos : http://neolithique02.blog4ever.com/blog/photos-cat-65835-1948634776-visite_du_musee_d_anthropologie_de_mexico__mexique.html Site in Mexico Other Mexico (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in the Distrito Federal.
The world's largest and most significant collection of archaeological and anthropological artifacts of pre-Columbian Mexico. The museum also houses ethnographic exhibits of the varied indigenous ethnic cultures of modern Mexico.

In the ancient art and artifact collections, a different hall is devoted to each Mesoamerican culture. Located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. The museum itself, designed by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares and built in 1963, is one of the top architectural sites in the city. For more, see the museum's website and a Mexico City English language tourism website. Hours are 0900-1900 Tuesdays-Sundays.

Note: Teotihuacan's Colorful Mosaic Mask Verified as an Authentic Pre-Conquest Artifact.
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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of the statue of Coatlinchan, now in the Museum, at its original site, from "Archaeological relics..." via archive.org Originally found near the Templo Mayor. Site in Mexico Other Mexico. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Museo Nacional de Antropología Diseñado por el Arquitecto Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Image copyright: Omar Omar (Omar Bárcena), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by DrewParsons : Olmec Head on display in the museum. Photographed in December 1989 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by durhamnature : The Sun Stone, Aztec Calender, from "Archaeological Relics" via archive.org Site in Mexico Other Mexico (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : The Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent Image copyright: F U M A (Matt Robinson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Quetzal plays an important role in Mesoamerican mythologies. The Resplendent Quetzal is Guatemala's national bird, and an image of it is on the flag and coat of arms of Guatemala. It is also the name of the local currency. The Resplendent Quetzal was considered divine, associated with the "snake god", Quetzalcoatl by Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations. Its iridescent green tail feathers...

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Ceramic Hierarchy The Maya and Teotihuacan The development of the great Mayan cities had an enormous impact on Teotihuacan, the great urban center of Mexico that, since the year 500 BC had more than 125,000 inhabitants. In its period of greatest development it was the center of the Mesoamerican world and, as such, without doubt a factor in determining certain aspects of political and economic or...

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Museo Nacional de Antropología Image copyright: wnhsl, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : The Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Museo Nacional de Antropología Diseñado por el Arquitecto Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Image copyright: Omar Omar (Omar Bárcena), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by DrewParsons : Model on display in the museum showing Tenochtitlan (the Aztec city) that stood where Mexico City is now. Photographed in December 1989

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by durhamnature : Old photo, from "Trip to Mexico...."via archive.org

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by neolithique02 : See more photos : http://neolithique02.blog4ever.com/blog/photos-cat-65835-1948634776-visite_du_musee_d_anthropologie_de_mexico__mexique.html Site in Mexico Other Mexico Site in Mexico Other Mexico

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Priest for the God of the Dead 'Everyone put on your party hat! The Priests are in town!' At the entrance of some of the sites at Templo Mayor, the Mexicas placed large figurines of clay, like this image representing an image of a priest of the god of the dead. He is wearing a cotton headdress with long, hanging parts and an ornament called an maxtlat, consisting of a rosette and a paper con...

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Museo Nacional de la Antropología Image copyright: Sam Kelly, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Musical Instruments These instruments are rather ornately designed. I enjoy the duck/alligator-looking whistle. That might be a monkey whistle to the right of it. Religious ceremonies included song and dance, so the richness of musical instruments found on the Gulf Coast shows the importance of this practice in societies of this religion. Whistles, flutes with one or more pipes, rattles, "oc...

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Museo Nacional de Antropología Image copyright: bonus1up (Nacho Pintos), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Museo Nacional de Antropología submitted by Flickr : Offering 4 of La Venta The heads of these figurines look like they are a product of cranial deformation. I wonder, however, if their heads were just shaped this way to hold headdresses better. The organics may not have preserved over time. I like how some of them look fatter than others. That makes me wonder if they are individualized to a degree. Olmec culture has been recognized as th...

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Lots more amazing photos from the museum by Andy B on Thursday, 22 November 2018
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Lots more amazing photos from the museum, with captions here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/albums/72157618603337970
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1,400-year-old funeral chamber found in south Mexico by coldrum on Sunday, 23 October 2011
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1,400-year-old funeral chamber found in south Mexico

A 1,400-year-old funeral chamber was found by chance in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, authorities said.

The chamber, regarded as an elite burial place and dating between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900, was found by locals in the village of Chilacachapa, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said late Wednesday.

Locals intended to bring down a dry stone wall that risked collapse when they came upon the tomb. Under the stones, they found sand and then a stone slab, and they alerted INAH officials. Archaeologists then reviewed the site and consolidated the finding.

“After looking through what was inside layer by layer, we came to the conclusion that the skeleton or skeletons of individuals that were put inside the tomb, perhaps that of a ruler, were taken out six centuries ago, before the Spaniards arrived,” an INAH statement said.

Archaeologists noted that the chamber was built by the Chontal ethnic group. It ends in a vault.

Archaeologist Edgar Pineda noted that it was probably linked to a building on the surface, most likely at the center of a former city.http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1051082
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Re: Museo Nacional de Antropología by Annaa on Thursday, 02 December 2010
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Actually in Rome, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, there is a marvellous exibition about treasures from Teotihuacan.
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Re: Museo Nacional de Antropología by Anonymous on Wednesday, 01 December 2010
is the anthropological museum open on New Years Day?
What are the hours?
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Authenticity of Teotihuacan's Malinaltepec Mask Verified by bat400 on Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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After a decade of controversy regarding the authenticity of the Malinaltepec Mask, an investigation conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has verified it is original.
“The Malinaltepec Mask”, a new publication coordinated by Sofia Martinez del Campo, a specialist in funerary masks, integrates 7 studies performed recently by 20 researchers on the Prehispanic piece, confirming it is authentic.
The book deals with substantial and assorted analyses that the piece, made out of 762 tesserae with an approximate age of 1,800 years, underwent. Among the studies are morphometric characterization, mineralogy, petrography, lapidary characteristics, technological analysis and adhesives used to paste decorations.
“Since its discovery in 1921, the mask caused controversy among archaeologists: specialist Porfirio Aguirre thought he had just found one of the great treasures of Mesoamerica, while authorities thought it had been recently created.

According to the specialist in charge of the INAH Funerary Masks Project, the team in charge of analyzing the archaeological object was amazed by the piece, its manufacture technique and the material that decorates it.

In 1921 it was determined that the mask was created with serpentine, but the results from the new mineralogical studies concluded that it is made of chloritite, a green-yellowish rock.
In the early 20th century, expert reports determined that most of the blue tesserae were confectioned with amazonite, some manufactured with turquoise, which was verified by the 2008 and 2009 lithic analyses. There are also shell and hematite elements.

“It was confirmed that copal resin was used to glue up tesserae; there was a rumor that modern glue had been used as an adhesive, but the presence of copal allowed us confirming the mask was created in Prehispanic times”, declared Martinez del Campo.

“The work is the product of an interdisciplinary investigation, gathering around the object more than 20 specialists in chemistry, mineralogy, petrography, biology, archaeology and anthropology.

Malinaltepec Mask is a Teotihuacan-style funerary object used in 2 different moments: it was created during the Classic period (200-900 AD) and used again in a funeral during the Post Classic period (900-1521 AD). It is 21 centimeters both long and wide, and 762 tesserae are adhered to it. It is one of the emblematic pieces at the Teotihuacan Hall of the National Museum of Anthropology.

Restorer Sofia Martinez del Campo mentioned that when it was created, the mask was not covered with mosaic. Nearly 700 years after, amazonite tesserae were inlayed, a mineral that was associated by Teotihuacan culture to Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of fertility and water.

“Mesoamerican people treasured pieces of past cultures, recovering Olmeca and Teotihuacan masks from funerary contexts and re appropriating them later to give them different uses”, detailed the restorer.

“Its function during the Classic period is unknown, it might have been part of a sculpture or attached to an architectural structure; during the Post Classic, it was used to bury it with an important character.

“It was then when they covered it with shell, turquoise and amazonite fragments, to give it the face of Chalchiuhtlicue; according to ancient beliefs, it would allow the departed to present in the underworld and ascend to the celestial level with the face of a divinity. We do not know if it was used by a man or a woman”, concluded Martinez del Campo.

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