Museums of the UNAM. Learning and entertainment sites

Abstract

A museum is an ambience that keep’s memory of human activity and the relation of this action to the environment. There are many types of museums, with diverse content and representing different ideologies that speak to us about the past and present, and take us to a reflection about all that could be.

In Mexico City there are so many museums, that you could visit one every weekend and not repeat any for three years or more. The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has 27 museums open to the public. It has galleries and collections of many types, UNAM also preserves museum spaces such as botanical gardens, planetariums, observatories and other sites that promote science and culture.

In this article I invite the reader to meditate about what these museum spaces signify and cotribute, as tools to strengthen our cultural identity and prepare us to make decisions based on information.

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