An exhibition that combines Indigenous cultures of Canada and Mexico was inaugurated on Wednesday at the National Museum of World Cultures (MNCM): original views.

In this sample, the artist Citlali Haro exhibits 12 portraits of women from the indigenous peoples of the two countries together for their struggle for the recognition of the rights of their communities.

Among those depicted stand out, for example, the Mexican Fátima Gamboa, Mayan activist and lawyer involved in justice with a gender and intercultural perspective, and Irma Pineda, Zapotec poet and cultural promoterrepresentative of indigenous peoples before the UN, and the Canadian Leena Evic, Inuit educator and businesswoman dedicated to conservation and education traditional knowledge.

“The exhibition is part of Canada’s commitment to promote inclusion and human rights, inside and outside its territory, on the basis of recognition, respect, cooperation and association”, warns the MNCM in a press release.

“In particular, this stems from concern for the invisibility and marginalization experienced by women and girls belonging to indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, a sector plagued by discrimination based on gender and ethnicity.”

Citlali Haro he worked on the portraits for eight months.

Original looks, can be visited at coin 13in the national palace and is part of the activities for the 57th anniversary of MNCM.

Oscar Raúl Cid de León Ricardez I Reform Agency

You may be interested: Meet the stars at the El Rehilete interactive museum

Open to the public today Projection system of the Digistar 7 planetarium, of the El Rehilete interactive museum, a service to offer visitors multimedia programs on scientific and technological themes, based on the spectacularity, brilliance and sharpness of their projections.

In this way, the technological resources have been updated, in order to be able to achieve its objective of spreading science and technology in a new, attractive and fun way that manages to amaze.
to your visitors.