Two museums in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.1966.v19.i182.4188Abstract
1. The new National Anthropology Museum involves a building with a covered area of 44,000 m2; it also includes 35,700 m2 of paved, open air grounds, 13,100 m2 of parking areas and 33,600 m2 of gardens. 30,000 m2 of the covered exhibition area, on the ground floor, is taken up with archaeology halls, and the same area, on the first floor corresponds to the ethnography department. Both in design and construction the most advanced techniques have been adopted, though bearing clearly in mind that in this instance they are at the service of tradition and history. 2. This museum has been built in the Chapultepec forest. It is intrinsically fused with the ground topography, with the green tones of the forest, and with the surrounding landscape. The museum seeks to give the visitor visual and auditive information on the history of the Mexican people in their struggle for liberty during the last 150 years. A notable feature is the reinforced plastic cupola, 8 m in diameter, which weighs only 400 kgs.
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