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Interior of the museum
The Museo Miraflores is an archaeological museum in Guatemala City, dedicated to the display of artefacts from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.[1] The museum is open from Tuesday through to Sunday.[2]
The museum was founded in 2002.[3] The museum is located in Zone 11 of Guatemala City, in the southern part of the area once covered by the Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.[4] It covers an area of approximately 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft).[4] Within the grounds of the museum are three preserved mounds.[4]
The modern museum is located in a shopping area outside the city centre.[5] It is privately owned and run by the Fundación Miraflores ("Miraflores Foundation"), a for-profit organisation.[6] The museum is described with labels in Spanish and usually English too.[5]
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Facilities
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 also has a shop and a cafeteria and is the venue for workshops, conferences and courses.[2]
The mounds within the museum garden are three of twenty-five ancient mounds surviving from Kaminaljuyu that are located on private property.[8] They are Structures B-V-3, B-V-4 and B-V-5;[8] they have been provided with information plaques.[9]
Collection
Maya civilization People · Languages · Society Religion · Mythology · Sacrifice Cities · Architecture · Calendar Stelae · Textiles · Trade Pre-Columbian Music · Writing History Preclassic Maya Classic Maya collapse Spanish conquest of Yucatán Spanish conquest of Guatemala The collection includes approximately 500 artefacts excavated from Kaminaljuyu.[4] Most of the artefacts were excavated from Kaminaljuyu during the period 1994 to 1996 by the Proyecto Miraflores ("Miraflores Project").[10] However, not all the artefacts on display have a local origin, and some have come from further afield in Guatemala, especially from pre-Columbian sites that had contact with Kaminaljuyu.[10] Among the artefacts in the collection are a mosaic mask consisting of 19 pieces of jade of unknown provenance and a sculpted stone atlante column.[11] Other collections at the museum include indigenous textiles from the Guatemalan Highlands and monthly displays of modern art.[10]
Notes
- ^ Museo Miraflores (1). Anonymous 2011.
- ^ a b REDCAMUS.
- ^ Herrera 2011.
- ^ a b c d Museo Miraflores (1).
- ^ a b "Museo Miraflores". Lonely Planet. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/guatemala/guatemala-city/sights/museum/museo-miraflores. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ^ Museo Miraflores (3).
- ^ a b Museo Miraflores (2).
- ^ a b Crasborn et al 2004, p.190.
- ^ Crasborn et al 2004, p.195.
- ^ a b c Torres 2009.
- ^ Anonymous 2011.
References
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- Anonymous (2011-01-24). "Piezas emblemáticas [Emblematic pieces]" (in Spanish). El Periódico (Guatemala City: Aldea Global, S.A.). http://www.elperiodico.com.gt/es/20110124/cultura/189340. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- Crasborn, José; Elizabeth Marroquín; Alexander Urízar; Edgar Hernández and Camilo Luin (2004). "La agonía del Cerro de Los Muertos: Kaminaljuyu hacia el siglo XXI". XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2003 (edited by J.P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. Escobedo and H. Mejía) (Guatemala City: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología): 188–202. http://www.asociaciontikal.com/pdf/20.03%20-%20Crasborn%20-%20en%20PDF.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-09. (Spanish)
- Herrera, Lucía (2011-01-27). "Un tesoro en cada página [A treasure on every page]" (in Spanish). Prensa Libre (Guatemala City). http://www.prensalibre.com/escenario/cultura/tesoro-pagina_0_416358429.html. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- Museo Miraflores (1). "Museo". Guatemala City: Museo Miraflores. http://www.museomiraflores.org/museo.asp#images/museo1.jpg. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (Spanish)
- Museo Miraflores (2). "Tour". Guatemala City: Museo Miraflores. http://www.museomiraflores.org/tour.asp#images/tour1_canal.jpg. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (Spanish)
- Museo Miraflores (3). "Fundación Miraflores". Guatemala City: Museo Miraflores. http://www.museomiraflores.org/fundacion.asp#images/fundacion1.jpg. Retrieved 2011-02-09. (Spanish)
- REDCAMUS. "Museo Miraflores". Red Centroamericana de Museos (REDCAMUS). http://www.museoscentroamericanos.net/guatemala_museos/museos_privados/miraflores.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-09. (Spanish)
- Torres, Estuardo (2009). "Museo Miraflores". Guatemala City: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. http://www.mcd.gob.gt/2009/05/13/museo-miraflores/. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (Spanish)
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