After sitting shuttered for five years, the Pinacoteca Juan Gamboa Guzman in downtown Mérida has partially reopened its doors. The 17th-century museum, which sits between the Church of the Third Order and the Palacio de la Música in the heart of the historic center, was never exactly high-profile. Still, new leadership programming is giving the…
In the Ateneo Peninsular, the new Tren Maya Museum showcases archaeological artifacts recovered during the construction of the Maya train. Though this new museum comprises three good-sized exhibition rooms, it takes up just a fraction of Mérida’s grand Ateneo Peninsular, which is adjacent to the Cathedral and across from the Plaza Grande. It is also…
The curtain rises on a new cultural space, honoring the memory of Yucatecan musician and composer Guty Cárdenas. Guty Cárdenas — Casa Memoria showcases the legacy of this 1920s icon, who is still remembered for songs like “Caminante del Mayab,” “Nunca,” and “Rayito de sol.” Guty Cárdenas was known as “The King of Yucatecan Song,”…
“Dialogue in the Dark” at Mérida’s Museo de la Luz is more than an exhibit; it is a movement to promote inclusion and empathy for the visually impaired. The experience has traveled to more than 130 cities in 35 countries and has been experienced by millions. The one-hour experience is designed to be an invisible…
The Gran Museo de Chichén Itzá is now open and features artifacts dating from the earliest occupation of the city to its heights under the rule of the Itzá.
The museum covers nearly 30,000 square feet and is equipped with a visitor’s center and state-of-the-art museography, which includes exhibits and headphones for virtual guided visits.
Aside from the the variety and quality of the works on display, it is hard to not be impressed by the sheer size of the Soumaya Museum.
Keep in mind is that the Palenque exhibit is entirely in Spanish, so the use of a smartphone translation tool, or hiring a guide may be a good idea.
After years of boarded-up doors and neglect, Mérida’s Ateneo is set to get the TLC it deserves.
El Museo de los Ferrocarriles in the new Gran Parque La Plancha de Mérida will be open to the public at the end of July. And the accommodations appear to be first class. While the original Yucatán Railway Museum was laid out on an open, grassy field, its new iteration will house most of the…
Maya religion and cosmology have been the subject of hundreds of investigations over the past century, but there is still much that remains a mystery.
Yucatán’s meteorite museum — formally called the Museo del Meteorito — officially opened Tuesday. It features five mega dinosaur sculptures between eight and nine meters high: the Monster of Aramberri or Pliosaur, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Quetzalcóatlus Nortrophi, Mosasaurus, and the Parasaurolophus dinosaurs are all life-size. The museum has interactive exhibits that tell the story of the…
A new temporary exhibit delving into the history and cultural significance of bicycles in Yucatán has recently opened to the public.
“We never intended this place to be holding concerts and having groups for fundraisers and giving tours,” John Venator says. “The house made that happen.”
Mérida’s rail museum is across from La Plancha park but is often considered part of the same government-owned property.
Yucatán’s contemporary art museum, the MACAY, closed its doors on July 28, 2021.
One of the most under-visited attractions in Mérida is the Museo de Ferrocarriles de Yucatán, Yucatán’s Railway Museum.
For Tey Mariana Stiteler, the museum’s Director, MUREM is a project born from her love of Mexican culture and design.
Yucatán’s contemporary art museum, MACAY, announced that it will close its doors today. The closure, which has been described by the MACAY’s director as symbolic, may however soon be real. The decision to stage the museum’s closure comes after Yucatán’s state government failed to meet its own deadline for making funds available to the museum. …
Nearly 110 years after it was built, the public is invited to see inside one of Mérida’s palacial Casas Cámara, also known as the Casas Gemelas or Twin Houses. Montejo 495 Casa Museo, which is the house on the left if you are viewing them from the Paseo, is a giant time capsule containing vestiges…
Yucatán’s newest tourist and cultural attraction is the Casa Manzanero Museum, dedicated to the 85-year-old Yucatecan singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero. The space, which was inaugurated yesterday with the trova star himself, Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal and other dignitaries, has on display information and artifacts relevant to this history of Mexico’s most romantic music. The 9-million-peso museum…
Two venerable Yucatán cultural institutions — The Fernando García Ponce-MACAY Museum and the Yucatán Symphony, or OSY — are the subject of change.org petitions asking for public support. The petitions don’t ask for money, just a signature to tell politicians to support art and music in Yucatán. But the petitions come as austerity programs mean public…
Although INAH’s Palacio Cantonis due to open Thursday, most other museums are still closed without a date to open their doors. Such is the case of the Museum of the Song in La Mejorada, where a security guard told La Jornada Maya that said that they have not received any instructions regarding the resumption of…
Valladolid has been known as a convenient overnight stop when touring someplace more famous, like Chichen Itza. Now it’s also the home of Museo de Ropa Etnica de Mexico (MUREM), which celebrates the country’s culture by way of its traditional clothing. A story about the museum was just published in The Washington Post, excellent exposure…
That’s all for now
That’s all for now