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Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview on the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico. The National Museum of Anthropology is charged with conserving, researching, exhibiting and controlling all the archaeological materials obtained from the archaeological excavations made by national or foreign institutions. It is the most important museum in the country, not only because of the nature of its exhibition materials, but also because of the size of its collections. Those in the archaeological field have more than one hundred thousand items, and the ethnographical collection contains more than 15 000 specimens, with a constant increase in both areas. The Museum has a history stretching back over 150 years. It originated as the Conservatory of Humanities, founded in 1826 by the new government of the Mexican Republic. Later this was transformed into the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, with the purpose of giving a legal framework to the protection of the antiquities of the nation, before and after the Spanish conquest. |
