Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections.

Laura Cházaro traces the transformations of a collection of human anatomical models and pathological specimens that began as part of the National Museum of Mexico, emphasizing the role that such collections played in the constructions of race in the growing nation. I Museum Matters i offers a fascinating look at the formation of an iconic collection, examining the omissions, exclusions, and historical contingencies that shaped Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and other national collections over the past two centuries. [Extracted from the article]

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