The National Museum trought Its Images: Brief Note

Abstract

The article offers a glimpse of the possibilities of photography as a non-textual visual document, which leads to the appreciation of the changes in exhibition design in the National Museum of Mexico from the last quarter of the nineteenth to the first decade of the twentieth century. It focuses particularly on seven photographs; six taken by foreign photographers who colonized the gaze on Mexico abroad; the last one by a woman, the photography assistant in the museum.