1917: Crisis of an Antiquarian Museology

Abstract

This article synthesizes museological and historiographic research on the National Museum in Mexico City during 1825-1925. It also reprises the interrelation between the writing of history and its staging through exhibition design. The objective is to trace the tension that arose between the study of the historical past and its sanctification in the museum-temple of the nation. At the end of the nineteenth century, the National Museum organized Mexico’s historical and anthropological disciplines, where diverse societies and scientific academies converged.