An archaeological exhibition of the Jaguar, a totem from Mesoamerica, draws more than half a million visitors in Liaoning, China.

An archaeological exhibition of the Jaguar, a totem from Mesoamerica, draws more than half a million visitors in Liaoning, China.


Photo: Liaoning Provincial Museum

The exhibition Jaguar, totem of Mesoamerica, currently in the second stage of its visit to China, at the Liaoning Provincial Museum in the northeast of this country, has already exceeded 522,000 visitors in that stage alone (started in October 2023) of which 223,000 have been children and young people.

According to the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH), the exhibition “allows the visitor to admire the importance of the (jaguar) through 146 archaeological and 8 ethnographic objects, among which are seen as part of the collection of the National Museum of Anthropology, masks from the modern era of the Nahua and Mixtec cultures, as well as various vessels, figurines and sculptures made from the Preclassic period (1200-900 BC) to the late Postclassic period (1200-1521 AD).

The first exhibition hall, at the Hunan Museum in southern China, received 286,000 people, including 49,000 young people, from July 1, 2023 to September 18 of the same year.

The collection will remain at the Liaoning Provincial Museum until May this year, and a third location will be announced soon.

Photo: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Photo: Liaoning Provincial Museum
Photo: Liaoning Provincial Museum

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