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MexicoFest 2007 Saturday, Oct. 13; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
| October 13, 2007 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 4:00 pm |
WHAT: MexicoFest 2007
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 13; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
WHERE: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
10th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The National Museum of Natural History presents “MexicoFest 2007,” a family festival featuring Mexican cultural and hands-on activities for all age groups and interests, as well as displays about museum projects that relate to Mexico or to the museum’s Mexican collections.
Activities
· Enjoy a variety of Mexican traditional dances presented by the local Maru Montero Company.
· Create traditional Mexican crafts that highlight the relationship between the conservation of natural resources and the creation of folk art. Advance reservations to participate in these activities are welcome. For more information, visit www.mnh.si.edu or call (202) 633-5268.
· Play “Loteria” a traditional Mexican card game.
· Draw biological specimens fromMexico with the help of scientific illustrators.
Displays/Presentations
· Learn about the diversity of Mexican mammals through an interactive Web site developed by museum educators.
· Join volcanologists from the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program in a discussion of Mexican volcanoes and their eruptions.
· See live spiders native toMexico and learn how to identify them with help from a Smithsonian arachnologist.
· Find out about the museum’s expeditions and research in Mexico’s CopperCanyon.
· Learn about the biology and migration of the monarch butterfly between the United States and Mexico.
Many of the interpretive signs will be in English and Spanish. MexicoFest is part of the museum’s 2007 Hispanic Heritage Month activities, and it is organized in conjunction with “Mexican Cycles,” an exhibit about Mexican indigenous festivals which opened at the museum on Sept. 25. The event is organized with the generous support of the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Mexico’s Museum of Folk Art (Museo de Arte Popular), and Washington Hispanic.
