Routes by native North America. Trips, rituals and life
On the occasion of the exhibition Northern Traces. Ancient North America, the museum offers a series of lectures by prestigious international specialists who will talk about the main cultural areas of North America. The series will finalize with a tribute to Dr. Edward K. Flagler, a renowned North American ethnohistorian .
Lecture series Routes by native North America. Trips, rituals and life
October 04, 2010. d'18:00h a October 27, 2010. 20:15h
Location: Fundació Institut d'Estudis Nord-americans. Via Augusta, 123, 08006 Barcelona
Price: Lectures are free
Information and reservations: - 93 310 45 16
This saturday (15 of may), we celebrate The Night Of The Museums, an opportunity to discover us in a very special way.
Come and discover the hieroglyphic symbols that are hidden in the pieces of the museum and create your own pottery following an ancient Pre-Columbian technique.
Reflection about the role of art as an object of memory in the oral African arts and the function of the museum as a place for conserving traditional knowledge.
The Barbier-Mueller PreColumbian Art Museum of Barcelona presents for the third year in a row its Altar of Dead as a way of sharing the debauchery of creativity: flowers, candles, incense, sugar skulls, music and food, which characterise the Mexican festivity of the Day of the Dead.
On the occasion of the installation of the Altar of the Dead in the museum, a cycle of three talks will take us into the world of this PreColumbian tradition that has lasted until the current day:
The Association of Friends of the Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum and the University Institute of Culture of the Pompeu Fabra University organise for the third year in a row the Art and myth in primitive cultures Conference, with the aim on this occasion of reflecting on the primitive cultures in two areas of the American continent: Amazonia and the north- eastern coast of North America.
Narration of stories full of strange beings, spirits and animals of the jungle which are included in the Amazonian pottery of the exhibition.
Simposi internacional organitzat per la Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, el Centro Peninsular de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales i la Universidad Autónoma de México.
The activity presented under the title of “When America wasn’t America”, consists of a didactical proposal offered by the Educational Service of the Museum to school groups, to work in the museum on the cultural environment of ancient America.
Within the framework of the exhibition “Ritual Arts of the New Continent. Pre-Columbian America”, the Museum, propose a guided visit for publics of all ages with specialised monitors, in an enjoyable way, so as to make the visit easier to understand.
Summer is the period of popular festivities and celebrations filling the streets with beasts and fantastic beings which emerge from our popular mythology.
Talk given by the historian Andrea Gatti within the cycle Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller.
On the occasion of the celebration of the Poetry Week, the courtyard of the Palau Nadal will hold a recital of poetry with verses by Octavio Paz and other from the Aztec literature. Recitals given by Elisabeth Hernández and Manel Solàs.
Talk given within the cycle Saturdays at the Barbier-Mueller organised by the Friends’ Association of the Museum.
The 1st Art and Collections Conference” under the title of Visions of the Art of Africa, is a first-time cultural meeting aimed both at experts and collectors, as well as a broader public interested in art.
If you have already tried on red clothes, the coloured cloths and other ritual for starting the year on the right foot, come and celebrate the alacitas.