Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Q.R. — The Secretary of Culture has announced the opening of the Historical Museum of the City of Felipe Carrillo Puerto. An old boarding school that dates back 174 years has been converted to showcase six different sections.
The Secretariats of Culture, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) as part of the cultural actions linked to the construction of the Mayan Train, worked on the creation of the Historical Museum of the City of Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
The old school was rehabilitated by military personnel in coordination with a team of professionals from the National Coordination of Museums and Exhibitions of the INAH and the INAH Quintana Roo Center.
The museum showcases six thematic axes that delve into that past and its present day.
“The purpose of the museum is not to remain a chronicle of the events that occurred in the 19th century, but to reflect the contemporaneity of the Mayans, ensuring that their presence and voice are represented,” explained the Director of the INAH Quintana Roo Center, Margarito Molina. Rendon.
The public will know the details of its foundation. Its genesis is in the so-called “Talking Cross”, which sent messages, written and oral, to the Mayan rebels with instructions for their war raids. However, the Historical Museum does not exhaust its story in this movement, said the anthropologist.
The museum also showcases the production of chicle in the region, the only natural chewing gum in the world coming from the sapodilla tree in the jungles of Quintana Roo and Campechana, which was in high demand during the First and Second World Wars.
It will also have a section dedicated to the Caste War, forestry through cornfields and honey extraction, tourism as a global economic activity and popular Mayan art and religiosity.
