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Comment | Hastily reinstalled ethnographic galleries have turned Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology into political theatre

Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision

María del Carmen Barrios Giordano and Edgar Alejandro Hernández
1 April 2025
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum (centre, in navy blue) inaugurates the reinstalled ethnographic galleries on the upper level of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City on 6 January Secretaría de Cultura