The stand-out décor recently added to the exterior of a small building located opposite the east side of the San Antonio Tlayacapan plaza is a sign of progress in the initiative to retell the town’s history through a collection of antiquities.
The Museo Comunitario Tlayacapan, a project launched in 2017 by the local non-profit group, Acalli, A.C., will eventually house around 250 artifacts from the pre-Hispanic era that have been preserved by generations of village families. Those pieces are due to be catalogued during September by personnel from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History.
The museum will also showcase other objects donated or loaned by locals that are pertinent to village life from the Colonial era through the early 20th Century, including antique sacred art and textiles embroidered with human hair.
Acalli has already procured display cases and a modern security system to protect the heritage pieces, although the museum is still lacking identification signage.