Tren Maya Museum
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Mérida’s New Tren Maya Museum Highlights Recovered Artifacts

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…

Museo Guty Cárdenas Honors a Tragic Music Icon from Yucatán
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Museo Guty Cárdenas Honors a Tragic Music Icon from Yucatán

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,”…

Museum of light in Mérida Yucatan Mexico

New exhibit ‘Dialogue in the Dark’ arrives at Museo de la Luz, Mérida’s light-themed museum

“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…

Kids design their own dinosaurs at Progreso’s new meteorite museum

Kids design their own dinosaurs at Progreso’s new meteorite museum

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…

The MACAY, Yucatán’s only museum of its kind, says goodbye

The MACAY, Yucatán’s only museum of its kind, says goodbye

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. …

New museum, Casa Manzanero, pays tribute to famed Yucatecan singer-songwriter

New museum, Casa Manzanero, pays tribute to famed Yucatecan singer-songwriter

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…

Online petitions urge support for Yucatan Symphony and the MACAY

Online petitions urge support for Yucatan Symphony and the MACAY

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…

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Most museums in Merida still closed with no reopening dates set

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…

Museum honoring traditional clothing of Mexico opens in Valladolid

Museum honoring traditional clothing of Mexico opens in Valladolid

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…

Palacio Cantón apologizes, promises reform, after dust-up with gay visitors

Palacio Cantón apologizes, promises reform, after dust-up with gay visitors

A peck on the cheek from one man to another drew the ire of an employee at the Museum of Anthropology in Mérida. Now, the government-run institution is apologizing for the staff hostility. “The Regional Museum of Anthropology, Palacio Cantón, confirms its commitment to diversity and to be an open and discrimination-free space. We greatly…

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