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| Director | Walther Boelsterly Urrutia |
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| Website | www |
The Museo de Arte Popular (Museum of Folk Art) is a museum in Mexico City, Mexico, that promotes and preserves part of the Mexican handcrafts and folk art.[1] Located in the historic center of Mexico City in an old fire house, the museum has a collection which includes textiles, pottery, glass, piñatas, alebrijes, furniture and much more.[2] However, the museum is best known as the sponsor of the yearly Noche de Alebrijes (Night of the Alebrijes) parade in which the fantastical creatures are constructed on a monumental scale and then paraded from the main plaza or Zocalo to the Angel of Independence monument, competing for prizes.[3]
- ^ "Semblanza" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Museo de Arte Popular. Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
- ^ "El museo de arte popular exhibe las mejores artesaní¬as de México: su acervo está considerado el más completo en su género y permite a los visitantes conocer en unas cuantas horas los ejemplos más acabados de la creatividad de los artesanos de este paí¬s" [The Museum of Popular Art exhibits the best crafts of Mexico, its collection is considered to be the most complete of its genre and permits visitors to get to know in a few hours the best examples of the creativity of artisans in this country]. Contenido (in Spanish). 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-11-05.[dead link]
- ^ CONACULTA. "El Museo de Arte Popular hace desfilar fantásticos alebrijes gigantes por la Ciudad de México" [The Museum of Popular Art sponsors a parage of giant fantasical alebrijes through the City of Mexico] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2009-10-28. Retrieved 2009-11-05.