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Guatemala's Indigenous Community Expresses Concern Over New Maya Museum

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...
Artnet

Guatemala to Welcome First Central American Holocaust Museum

A colonial-era house in Guatemala City, Guatemala will be the site of the Museo del Holocausto, the first Holocaust museum in Central America. It is set to open before the end of the year according to ...
The Saratogian

Dance Culture of Guatemala reception at the Dance Museum

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> On Friday May 2 at 6 pm, the National Museum of Dance is hosting an opening reception of Tradition in Movement – an exhibit celebrating the dance culture of Guatemala. The exhibit ...
archpaper

LACMA launches Kickstarter to bring Guatemala's only contemporary art museum to U.S.

The Los Angeles Museum County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Guatemala have launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring Guatemala’s first and only contemporary art museum ...
Winnipeg Free Press

Museum a portal to Guatemala

They say you don’t know a person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes. The first 3-D virtual reality exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights transports visitors 5,000 kilometres away into ...
archpaper

Mayancraft: Guatemala City to Welcome New Museum

Plans have recently been unveiled for a new institution dedicated to Mayan culture to be constructed in Guatemala City. Designed by Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio in collaboration with Boston company ...
Morning Call PA

HAND-WOVEN HERITAGE NATIVE INDIAN COSTUMES OF GUATEMALA AT ART MUSEUM

Influences from the ancient Mayan Empire and a later Spanish occupation collaborate in the explosive colors and bold designs still used in the native Indian costumes of Guatemala. The villagers living ...
Los Angeles Times

LACMA launches its first Kickstarter campaign, bringing an egg-shaped art museum to L.A. from Guatemala

In Guatemala City, there is a contemporary art museum housed in a small structure in the shape of an egg — a space that, on a good day, can accommodate a total of four people. In August, a replica of ...
Univision

From shining shoes in Guatemala to managing a museum in California

Rene Coronado grew up in shocking poverty in Guatemala shining shoes after school when he was only 8 years old to survive. He migrated to Los Angeles, and has since earned recognition as a biologist ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Guatemala Embassy marks Independence Day at Friends of Zion Museum

Why Netanyahu is seeking a pardon in his trial now ...
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Guatemala’s Indigenous Community Expresses Concern Over New Maya Museum

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