SWITZERLAND: A MAJOR EXHIBITION OF MEXICAN PRE-COLOMBIAN ART HAS OPENED AT THE RATH MUSEUM

Record ID: 584686

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: A MAJOR EXHIBITION OF MEXICAN PRE-COLOMBIAN ART HAS OPENED AT THE RATH MUSEUM
  • Date: 15th October 1998
  • Summary: 1. SLV EXTERIOR RATH MUSEUM 0.05 2. TV/PAN INTERIORS EXHIBIT HALL, PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISPLAYS (2 SHOTS) 0.15 3. CU SCULPTURE OF AZTEC GOD OF THE SUN NAMED XIUHCOATL 0.19 4. OAN MIXTEC POST CLASSIC MASK IN MOSAIC 0.28 5. MCU CHILDREN LOOKING AT DISPLAYS 0.32 6. CU/SV MASKS AND WALL PANELS/PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISPLAYS (9 SHOTS) 1.24 7. MCU OF MUSEUM DIRECTOR CASAR MENZ CASAR MENZ SAYING IT WASN'T SO DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE WERE IN CONTACT WITH A LOT OF COLLECTORS AND A LOT OF MUSEUMS AND ALWAYS COLLECTORS FORM A SORT OF FAMILY SO IT WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR. WE ARE VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT. WE HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 7,000 OBJECTS AND WE ARRIVED IN FOUR HUNDRED (ENGLISH) 1.45 8. SLV INTERIOR 1.50 9. CU/SV SMALL TEOTIHUACAN SCULPTURES OF DANCERS/PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISPLAYS (4 SHOTS) 2.06 10. CU MAP OF MEXICAN PRE-COLOMBIAN CULTURES 2.10 11. PAN AZTEC GOD OF WINDS ECHECATL 2.15 12. CU TEOTIHUACUAN CENSUS OF GOD XOCHIPILLI, WITH BUT BUTTERFLY IN HIS MOUTH 2.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th October 1998 12:00
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  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVA3JQP15I85TTUX8C9RTIM9F2WE
  • Story Text: Thousands of people have been flocking to Geneva to
    attend one of world's largest exhibition of Mexican
    pre-Colombian art.Over four hundred works representing 3000
    years of history are on display.

    A major exhibition of Mexican pre-Colombian art has
    opened this month at the Rath museum in Geneva.Over 450
    people a day attended the event.

    "Mexico: Land of Gods" is probably the largest show of
    works covering 3,000 years before the Spanish conquest ever
    assembled worldwide, acording to its organisers.

    Among its 400 exhibits, on loan from other European
    museums and private collectors, are works representing the
    main Mexican Indian cultures -- Olmec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya
    and Aztec -- and smaller groups like the Mezcala.

    They include jaguar masks, engraved jade, Mixtec mosaics,
    giant Aztec sculptures and artefacts illustrating daily life
    of the pre-Colombian period.

    During the exhibition, the museum is also running a course
    for amateur philologists on the Mayan language and its glyphs
    -- or picture-words.

    The exhibition will be open until January 1999.


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