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Before the conquest of the Incan civilization, other groups and tribes dotted the Andes mountain range. Much of their culture was recorded in the pottery which they used day to day. From water jugs to symbolic fertility statues, the National Museum in Lima holds an incredible collection and variety of ceramic pottery from around the [...]
If I told you Zacatecas has a museum of masks, would you go? It was enough to get us to go to Zacatecas. The 3,000 indigenous masks on display at Museo Rafael Coronel in Zacatecas are from all over Mexico and represent significant cultural history. The collection is colorful and outstanding, but most interesting perhaps [...]
There’s a reason the Spanish conquistadors wanted to control South America – the gold. The conquistadors were hoping for a big pay out when they arrived in South America. Although the Spanish did pretty well clearing South America of silver, they never found “el dorado” or the mythical lost city of gold. Traditionally, the native [...]
Sometimes an object, alone in it’s display can be powerfully beautiful. This vase sat alone on a pedestal in the Nubian museum in Aswan, Egypt. A museum dedicated to a civilization that predated ancient Egypt and eventually was conquered by them, then later conquered the Egyptians, it’s a history of people that have survived. This [...]
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