Tonight, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo inaugurated the second floor of the Museum of Anthropology, which, she said, seeks to reclaim 300 years of history of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples.
“This inauguration is part of this transformation that our country is experiencing, which lays its foundations in what we call Mexican humanism, which has two great pillars,” Sheinbaum commented at the event.
He explained that one of the pillars is “the cultural greatness” that comes from the native peoples, which did not arise with the “discovery of America” or with the arrival of the Spanish, but here in this territory, known as Mesoamerica, today Mexico.
“Today also by recognizing the living peoples, the native peoples of today, not only as part of the Constitution and as part of history and resistance, but also in public policy,” said the president.
He added that it was recently announced that for the first time nearly 13 billion pesos will be allocated to give as a budget to the indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples of Mexico, as part of the reform of the second constitutional article.
This reform was approved and published in the last days of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, along with other constitutional changes such as the so-called judicial reform.
The Mexican president also added that her administration aims to incorporate into the Ministry of Culture everything that has to do with “living cultures”, that is, what has to do with FONART, which is the National Fund for the Promotion of the Crafts, with the Museum of Popular Cultures.
“We want to incorporate it into a single coordination. In such a way that the INAH is present, and at the same time everything that has to do with the living cultures of the indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples is incorporated under a single coordination,” assured Sheinbaum.
He added that for this task resources will also be assigned to the National School of Anthropology and History, although he did not mention the amounts or how the resources will be obtained.
“We started in 2025 and we will continue throughout the six-year term making the cultures and cultural greatness of Mexico a reality,” he mentioned.
She added that this year, the Mexican government decided to dedicate it to indigenous women.
“The indigenous woman as a generic, to indigenous women. because if someone has not been recognized in history, it has been women, but if someone has not been recognized in the history of Mexico, it is indigenous women,” she concluded.
Clara Brugada, who is head of Government of Mexico City, also participated in the event. The ruler of the capital mentioned that this is “an important moment” for the country and that Mexico is a people that is proud of its history.
“And the recovery, preservation, research and dissemination of our historical legacy is an essential task for the present and future of our nation,” he commented.
He added that this museum is “witness” to the fight to preserve the memory and identity of thousands of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from various disciplines.
“Applause for all of you, who for at least 200 years have explored, investigated and generated knowledge. But today what we are going to see is the direct contribution of living indigenous communities,” said the head of government.
The Anthropology Museum is a work of architect Pedro Ramírez and is the home of the deities of the ancients, Brugada said. The facility was inaugurated in 1964.
“Here the cosmogony of our people and their greatness meet. So since its founding, this has been one of the most important museums in the world,” said Clara Brugada,
The modernization of the ethnographic rooms of said museum is a “unique” opportunity to learn not only pre-Hispanic history, but also the artistic and cultural production of contemporary indigenous peoples, he concluded.
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