2,000 Archaeological items arrive at the Casa de Allende Museum

Published May 5, 2022

The Casa de Allende Historical Museum has just incorporated into its collections a collection of more than two thousand archaeological pieces, which tells the story of the evolution of this region of the Mexican Bajío in pre-Hispanic times, and that next summer will be the axis of the permanent room: “Izcuinapan”, nahua word that means “water of dogs”, name given in the sixteenth century to the first indigenous settlement of San Miguel.

The creation of the new regional archaeology room, as well as a research center and a repository in this enclosure, from the adhesion of this corpus of more than two thousand pieces, was announced at a press conference. It is the return to San Miguel de Allende of a private collection that, after its delivery, to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), in 1972, was dispersed in different museums.

This reintegration is the result of the collaboration between the Casa de Allende Historical Museum, Friends of the AC Museum, and the different technical areas of the institute, said the head of the INAH Guanajuato Center, Olga Adriana Hernández Flores, who was accompanied by the director of this museum space, Patricia Guerra Vallejo; the founder of the civil association, César Arias de la Canal, and the co-coordinator of the project, Alberto Aveleyra Talamantes.

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