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Museo Nacional de Antropología

Ramírez Vázquez, Pedro
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Alternative Title
National Museum of Anthropology (MNA)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/95897
Date
1963
Description
Designed in 1963 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares, it has an impressive architecture with exhibition halls surrounding a patio with a huge pond and a vast square concrete umbrella supported by a single slender pillar (known as "el paraguas", Spanish for "the umbrella") around which splashes an artificial cascade. The halls are ringed by gardens, many of which contain outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibits and covers an area of 79,700 square meters (almost 8 hectares) or 857,890 square feet (almost 20 acres).; Designed in 1963 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares, it has an impressive architecture with exhibition halls surrounding a patio with a huge pond and a vast square concrete umbrella supported by a single slender pillar (known as "el paraguas", Spanish for "the umbrella") around which splashes an artificial cascade. The halls are ringed by gardens, many of which contain outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibits and covers an area of 79,700 square meters (almost 8 hectares) or 857,890 square feet (almost 20 acres). Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/17/2009)
Type of Work
museum; plaza; pond
Subject
architectural exteriors, contemporary (1960 to present), Museology, Twentieth century, Modernist
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