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The entrance hall to the museum has a map of the ancient city set into the floor, overlaid with glass marked with the streets of modern Guatemala City. [7] The museum has a permanent exhibition hall, a temporary exhibition hall and a mezanine with a display of 60 archaeological photographs taken between 1994 and 1996. [ 7 ]
The museum was founded in 2000 as part of the Centro Cultural La Azotea. The exhibition covers all stages of coffee production including cultivation, harvest, roasting and trade. The collection includes milling machines from different parts of the world.
The museum has more than 842 square meters of exhibition space, containing artwork from the pre-colonial, colonial, and Republican period and spanning more than 3,000 years. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Some of the oldest pieces in the museum's collection come from the archeological sites at Tikal National Park (in Petén Department ) and Takalik Abaj ...
Photos by Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos from Antiquity and Cambridge University Press One of the cylindrical vessels was found less than 5 feet from the spherical vessel in 2007, researchers said.
Guatemalan art refers to all forms of visual art associated with a Guatemalan national identity either because they are created within Guatemala, for Guatemalans, or by Guatemalans. The visual arts in Guatemala consist largely of weaving , muralism , painting , architecture , and the performing arts .
This excitement turned to consensus about the priority of high social and cultural developments in the South when Shook and Kidder published their report on Mound E-III-3, [6] a "Miraflores" mound and the largest known thus far from the site, and which contained seven structures built onion-skin fashion over and around each other through time ...
The Palacio Nacional de la Cultura (National Palace of Culture), also known colloquially as "Palacio Verde", [1] is identified as Guatemala City's symbol in its architectural context. It was the most important building in Guatemala and was the headquarters of the president of Guatemala.
The Guatemalan National Natural History Museum (Spanish: Museo de Historia Natural 'Jorge A. Ibarra') is a national natural history museum in Guatemala City, Guatemala. It was founded in 1950 and moved to its present facility in 1986. It was renamed in honor of its founder and long-term director, Jorge A. Ibarra. [1] [2]