After an initial investment of 529 million pesos for its construction, and with the ability to receive 5,000 people a daythe museum also has a cafeteria and recreation spaces. The dynamics during the visit to the enclosure is different if you go during the weekend or weekends; They can be observed from young couples in an appointment plan, older adults in a fabric workshop, to families or study groups for the parcel of some school.
Iztapalapa now has a public art space with the aim of decentralizing the cultural offer. Or is it not rather amending the lack of spaces that have been replaced for years, as Lipovetsky would say, for the culture of consumption? That is to say, prevalence of shopping centers and film chains, above spaces that encourage recreation and learning on environmental care or Nahua cosmogony, topics addressed by the Yancuic Museum.
The ecosystems and biodiversity room at the Yancuic Museum will enchant boys and adults.Courtesy Yancuic Museum
Sala experiences at the Yancuic Museum
For each exhibition space there are room texts arranged in three languages: Spanish, Nahuatl and English. On the first level there are two educational stations, in the first one is briefly exposed information about the soil, crops and water collection; And the second station is dedicated to chocolate, both rooms, equipped with interactive activities to strengthen learning playfully.
In the second level, four rooms, one of them, the dialogue and action room are located, where a huge photo of the Xochiaca boardlocated in the State of Mexico, which covers an entire wall and forces us to see it. An overwhelming landscape that the inhabitants of Cdad. Nezahualcóyotl see every day, captured by Santiago Arau. Ecosystems and biodiversity is another of the rooms where there is a tour of some of the ecosystems that Mexico has, as well as its flora, fauna and some endemic species.