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The Museum of the Mayan
Culture is the place in where one of the greater feats
made by the man can be appreciated in the American continent,
when imposing its dominion on the average one to create
that civilization that lasted more than two thousand
years.
With the support of the most modern technology of quipos
of computer science and digital multimedia, the Museum
of the Mayan Culture at the same time offers a close
approach to us to a distant and near culture. Even though
the sagradas cities today are left, even though the
time has happened and history was changed with the presence
of another culture that came from extreme sea, the old
wisdom of the Mayans survives in its daily life, in
its rites and beliefs, in you practice them agricultural
and in the vigorous language that two million people
speak. For Quintana Roo, this museum, and the culture
that represents, is reasons for pride. It is a recognition
to the artistic inspiration and the knowledge of the
Mayan town.
The organized Museum this in eight stations:
1.- The Mayab and its people: The historical location
occurs, is described you live, the population process
is explained and to the physical type and the language
are indicated.
2.- - Between the mountain and the sea: the relation
of the man with the nature, as well as the technology
and other cultural results of this relation is exposed;
all it through wakes, videos, scale models and illustrations.
3.-The place of the thrones and seats of honor: one
dedicates to the architecture and Mayan cities. Here
the architecture of ceremonial character and the urban
structure of the Mayan cities are exemplified.
4.- The men of the maize: one talks about the economic
activities that characterized the Mayan productive process,
as they are: the hunting, the fishing, the harvesting,
the agriculture and the forms of commercial interchange.
5.- In her is the explanation of I tie that symbolically
it established the man with the world. In this perspective
they expose the mythical origin, the funeral customs
and the axial figure of ceiba, that related the infraworld,
the human world and the celestial sphere.
6.- The wisdom of the old ones: the knowledge are exposed
that on the stars, the time, the numbers and the writing
developed the Mayans.
7.- The foreigners: the presence of the cultural contacts
with other towns is explained, as they are: the teotihuacans,
Mayan-putunes and the groups of tolteca connection.
8.- The decline of the world: The presence and the activity
of the Spanish conquerors close the museografico text
and give beginning to the use of the prophecies that
predicted the darkness.
The Museum counts on
service of guides in Spanish and ingles, educative services,
temporary exhibition halls, audience and store. In Chetumal,
Quintana I nibble, the past and the present they coexist
harmoniously.
Museum of the Mayan Culture
Av. Cabbage s/n heroes.
Center, C.P. 77000
Chetumal, Quintana roo
Tuesday to Thursday of 9:00 to 19:00 hrs.
Friday and Saturday of 9:00 to 20:00 hrs.
Sunday of 9:00 to 19:00 hrs.
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