A visit to the National Museum of Anthropology
NMA 1: flying dancers 
NMA 2: Aztec Viagra 
NMA 3: skull 
NMA 4: Five figures and me 
NMA 5: Two hats 
NMA 6: God of war 
NMA 7: Passers by 
NMA 8: Hovering, like the Mekon 
NMA 9: Contortions 
NMA 10: Peyote jar 
NMA 11: Sacrificial altar
Having arrived in Mexico City last night, I had thought I would spend much of today writing, but Maurico Bonilla–who I first met when he was a student in 2003 at Imperial College, arrived for a coffee–and we decided to go for a walk through nearby Chapultepec Park. Among other things, he is Editor of ReConnecta, a sustainability-oriented newsletter and website based in Mexico City.
We went first to an art gallery, then on to the National Museum of Anthropology, which was one of the most exciting museums I have been in anywhere in the world. Granted many of the objects aregruesome, having to do with various forms of human sacrifice, but the presentation is wonderfully done. Probably the most striking single object is the Aztec Stone of the Sun, which is apparently not a good thing to be photographed near, but that wasn’t deterring various folk from being shot against it.
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