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The Museo Regional de Antropología e Historia (Regional Museum of Anthropology and History) is the largest museum in Tuxtla Gutiérrez and one of the most important of its kind in Mexico. [1] The director is Miguel Ángel Riva Palacio. [2] The building was constructed in modern style between 1979 and 1982, and the museum inaugurated in 1984.
Museum of Light (Museo de la Luz) [46] Museo Archivo de la Fotografía; Museum of Mexican Constitutions; Museum of Mexican Medicine – Brasil 33 Centro; Museum of Natural History (Mexico City) [47] Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts [48] Museum of Parliament Precinct [49] Museo de Arte Moderno [50] Museum of Popular Art [51] Museo de la Bola ...
Temple of Inscriptions. The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓolon jex teʔ naːh]) "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears" [1]) is the largest Mesoamerican stepped pyramid structure at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Palenque, located in the modern-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.
The Museo de Arte Popular held the first "Concurso de Piñatas Mexicanas" (Mexican Piñata Contest) in 2007 with prizes of 15,000, 10,000 and 5,000 pesos. The purpose of the contest is to help retain this tradition and help it to be continued to be valued. [ 5 ]
The Museo de la Laca (Lacquerware Museum) was founded in 1952 and is the only one of its type. It contains a collection of 450 pieces which were made between 1906 and 1980, from Pátzcuaro, Quiroga, Uruapan, Olinalá, Guerrero as well as Chiapas. There are foreign pieces from Guatemala, China, Thailand and Japan. There are demonstrations on the ...
Montemayor is credited with the founding of Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, on September 20, 1596.The establishment was officially called Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey ("Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey," partly to curry favor from the Viceroy of the time, the Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey.
However, this is a modern name and the original name was either Po or Popo, appearing in Classic Maya texts in the title used for the kings of Toniná, k'uhul po' ajaw (Divine Lord of Po). [8] A Maya rebellion in Colonial times, in 1558, featured a group called the po' winikob' (People of Po). [ 8 ]
La Ciudad de San Cristóbal de las Casas a sus 476 años: Una mirada desde las ciencias sociales [The City of San Cristóbal de las Casas after 476 years: A view from the social sciences] (in Spanish). Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. ISBN 978-970-697-205-7. [dead link ] Lee, Thomas A. (1979b).