At the presentation of Arq. Bernardo Sarvide Primo as the new director of the Museo Palacio Cantón, the director of INAH in Yucatan, Eduardo López Calzada, said that starting in February five special maintenance and conservation projects amounting to 17 million pesos provided by State government will be launched in Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Izamal, Kulubá and Dzibichaltún.
The officials also said with the acquisition of a property adjacent to the museum two years ago, the “Palacio Cantón Cultural Complex” will be integrated. A bank branch had previously operated in this property, and the INAH purchased it for 23 million pesos. It will be a collection warehouse and a repository of cultural assets in which the public will be able to see how specialists work in a recovery laboratory. Eventually plans call for this complex to house a research center.
The project must be completed in its entirety in the next two years, and preliminary work begins in six months. The objective is that the public understands the daily work of INAH specialists in conservation, insurance, and preservation of the cultural heritage of the region, where there are more than 4 thousand sites, most of them as yet unrecovered, and where every year between 40 and 50 saves are carried out.
As a result of these activities, Yucatan has the second most important “Ceramoteca” in the country.
Text/photo: Manuel Pool
