Latin America’s New White Elephant: Museums and Exhibits of Pre-Hispanic Material Culture in the Post-Industrial City.

Author(s): Adam Sellen

Year: 2016

Summary

The “Bilbao effect,” or “Guggenheim effect” as it is also known, posits that spectacular architecture designed by star architects can help renew a city’s cultural sector and turn around a languishing economy. Many world museums in post-industrial cities have tried, with varying degrees of success, to reproduce the model implemented in Bilbao. In this talk we will explore how a focus on “wow-factor” architecture has transformed museums in Latin America, and in particular how this approach has impacted their exhibiting practices and the visitor’s overall experience of pre-Hispanic material culture.

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Latin America’s New White Elephant: Museums and Exhibits of Pre-Hispanic Material Culture in the Post-Industrial City.. Adam Sellen. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403981)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica

Spatial Coverage

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