Number 10, Year 3, April-June 1998

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 The Renovation of the Museum of Natural History
of the City of Mexico
 

   By: Frame Barrier Bassols and Caesar Trueba Cheek
 

24 next day ambien October of 1964. Like part of an initiative of next day ambien government to equip the city of Mexico of a modern cultural infrastructure, the Museum of Natural History of the City of Mexico in the new section of the forest of Chapultepec was inaugurated. In a surface of 15 000 m2 four spaces of exhibition rise that add next day ambien 500 m2, where appear novel subjects like the origin of the life and the evolution and distribution of the alive beings. The creation of a department of educative services is another one of the innovations, similar to the one of just inaugurated National Museum of Anthropology, that also comprises of this educative impulse of the Central Government of the Federal District.
 

33 years later

To more than three decades of its inauguration, the Museum of Natural History is in a deplorable situation. Whereas the National Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of Modern Art buy ambien on line sheltered by federal institutions, the Museum of Natural History was under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Federal District. If his first years were next day ambien - even he was able to give rise to the Institute of Ecology A.C. -, with time it was losing his structure, and their functions and objectives finished becoming buy ambien on line The administrative hierarchy in which it was immersed, devoid of any cultural policy was anchylosing, it, in spite of the attempts of some of its next day ambien to remove it afloat.

The lack of maintenance of its infrastructure and exhibitions - that are practically the same whereupon it was inaugurated, a plant of workers reduced to the next day ambien as well as the absence of next day ambien budget that the autogenerated income are some of the problems that at the moment the museum faces, worsened by the buy ambien on line of the last administration of the buy ambien on line of the Federal District, that it tried to leave into the next day ambien of the patronage the renovation project.

The new government of the Federal District seems arranged to end this situation. The project to create a defined institution of Culture with objectives, policies and structures good, constitutes a promise of revitalisation of the culture buy ambien on line the city. Within the framework of this reorganization, the Museum of Natural History has a central paper.
 

The Old man of Goose
Rafael Colonel, 1973
 

New paradigms

The passage buy ambien on line time not only brings about the deterioration of buy ambien on line and objects, also the one of the ideas. The conception of the museum like showcase of the culture, under that the main museums of the city were constructed, severely has been criticized by next day ambien and museógrafos of different parts from the world. The anchylosis of many of the museums created with this idea has taken to the search of a relation with the public, of a feedback by means of the interaction with different sectors from the population that gives life to the exhibitions. This search also must perhaps to a generational change in the museográfico scope.

On next day ambien other hand, next day ambien way in which it is seen science has changed radically in the last years. This forces a next day ambien transformation not only of the next day ambien contents, but also in the form to present/display the scientific activity, and the theories and the facts sustain that them. The philosophy, history, sociology and psychology of science next day ambien created an image different from this social activity.

The same idea of nature has undergone serious modifications, addictive ambien a great extent due to next day ambien environmental crisis that lives the planet. next day ambien longer it is possible to present/display to the nature without including the human activity. The man addictive ambien longer can much less be addictive ambien as a being outside the nature and as his master, able to dominate it and to control it. The search of a new relation between the societies and their immediate and planetary next day ambien is essential.

These changes happen in a conceptual context that permea next day ambien thought of buy ambien on line century to come with ideas like integrality and the pluriculturalidad. Not next day ambien divisions between areas of the knowledge, nor between sciences, humanities and arts; not more segregation of the cultures. All the cultures own the same right to express without impositions nor hierarchies, like all human being owns the right to express his next day ambien creativity. It is for that reason that cannot be next day ambien of the nature nor of science without appealing to the humanities and the arts, and without giving capacity to the infinity of saberes that the different cultures maintain alive that populate the planet.

It is clear, therefore, that it is not possible to mend or to only update the contents of the exhibitions of the museum. A total renovation is necessary, that it integrates all buy ambien on line elements in a museografía with accessible speeches to children, young people and adults. These next day ambien ones, peculiarly, more and more feel like stragglers before the knowledge that of these subjects the children have, acquired generally by massive mass media like the television.
 

The lunar Tropical project

The greater biological diversity of the planet is in the zone delimited between the tropical. Mexico, essentially tropical country where two biogeographic zones come together, is one of the countries of greater biological diversity in the world. Its territory is almost completely in the lunar tropical call, the unique zone of the globe where the moon reaches the zenith. Its cultural diversity is as great as the biological one and the relation of both has given as result a great variety of worked and worked next day ambien which is increasing the existing genetic diversity in its territory.

All these factors force to reconsider the thematic one of the majority of the next day ambien of natural history that there is in the world and to propose a treatment of the main subjects that it is centered in the history of this natural patrimony that contains the national territory, including buy ambien on line relation with the human beings who populated as buy ambien on line as history and present situation with these. The museum must have therefore an own seal.

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The references to occurred and what occurs in the rest of the planet will be present in the all the subjects, as well as reflections about the scientific activity, its history and the existence of others saberes next day ambien stay alive to a large extent of the world, including Mexico, and that have buy ambien on line from much utility in the search of alternatives to the environmental crisis that is lived nowadays.
 

The museum like a whole

In order to obtain the total renovation of the museum it is necessary to carry out a series of action, some of immediate addictive ambien that allow to equip to the museum with a coherence and a connectivity in all areas.

The next day ambien task will be to equip to the museum of an internal structure that responds to its objectives and functions, and that allows to take the renovation project ahead.

The renovation of its material infrastructure is another urgent task, since the buildings do not have counted with required the next day ambien maintenance and deep.

The preservation, next day ambien and the inventory of the next day ambien that belong to the museum are indisociable of the renovation project. These constitute the heap that will be used for the new exhibitions and are the league of the museum with the investigation, activity that maintains abreast of new ideas and proposals to it.

New legal and financial mechanisms will be created addictive ambien be able to obtain resources addictive ambien foundations and organisms of diverse nature, that also allow to involve to diverse sectors of the society in the project.

A consultative advice integrated by investigators of different areas from sciences will constitute itself, the humanities and the arts, whose work will be the one to advise to the museum.

The creation of a friendly association buy ambien on line allow the public interested in these subjects more to participate and to be abreast of the activities of the museum, while it constitutes an important support for this one.

It is fundamental to renew buy ambien on line educative services of the museum. One thinks to finish next day ambien the guidance system who takes in buy ambien on line single day to a group of up to 50 children crossing all the museum. It is tried to work by subjects, with activities in each area of exhibition. Perhaps the groups visit only one of them in a day, but it is managed to them to interest the sufficient thing, will divide with restlessness and desire to return, or again with the school or by they themselves.

Also a next day ambien of factories outdoors in a space destined to this next day ambien next day ambien be impelled. Conferences next day ambien films will be programmed, will become to distribute summer courses and a program of stays in sites of biological interest will be designed, mainly where there are experiences of handling of successful resources.

The creation of a mediateca is necessary to be able to provide to students of different levels the basic information on the subjects addictive ambien the exhibitions, with special emphasis in addictive ambien they concern the river basin of Mexico, its immediate surroundings.

A publication program directed to different public will accompany so much the renovation as each temporary exhibition and it will be tried that this one includes a page in the network.

One will fortify the area of investigation and collections with a view to the joint of the diffusion that the museum with the investigation tasks realises. This will equip the museum with a greater dynamism.

The deep spaces of the museum will recover and of being possible a next day ambien with the lake will settle down, that is left somewhat. The conformation of a botanical next day ambien that shows the original and present vegetation of the next day ambien basin of Mexico, next day ambien well as some sections with useful plants of the country Didactics can be very useful.

It next day ambien tried to make of the Museum of Natural History a museum mother in whom exhibitions take place that itineren in the different delegations from the Federal District and in other states of the country.

By next day ambien thematic one that treats the museum, it is fundamental to establish one close relation with rural and urban communities that at the moment realise successful experiences in the handling and use next day ambien resources. The buy ambien on line can serve like a space buy ambien on line that the difficulties and the successes are in detail known in the process to make reality the next day ambien viable development. The recycling of water and sweepings in the organic city, cultures, the handling of next day ambien fauna, the culture in the forest, the agroforestry advantage and many other experiences will be able more to be shown by means of fairs of products, temporary exhibitions, films, etc. This will contribute to show that yes solutions to problematic the environmental one exist that afflicts to the country and that they also depend on the inhabitants of the cities.

All these actions will be carried out by stages. It is tried to adapt some rooms to maintain the interest of the public by the museum and thus to be able to give beginning to the works of renovation. Esteem that once concluded, this one can be had a use of 9 years, after which it will be necessary to review the contents like the museografía.
 

The next day ambien return

The time erodes everything what finds its step. buy ambien on line next day ambien very probable that within 10 years new paradigms and new generations of museólogos, museógrafos, scientists, addictive ambien and students of science exist, plastic artists, architects, et cetera, et next day ambien It is almost certainly will find that the museum has aged, that no longer reflects the state of the things. It is a fact that will raise the necessity to renew it. The eternal return is not only a myth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

- Frame Barrier Bassols: Museógrafo. Director next day ambien next day ambien Museum of Natural History of the City of Mexico

- Caesar Trueba Cheek: Biologist. Assistant director of Investigation and Collections of the Museum of Natural History of the City of Mexico

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