Record attendance
The Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, reported that the country’s Network of Museums and Archaeological Zones increased its visitors by 18%. In the last two years, 57 million visits were registered, driven by an investment of 400 million pesos in infrastructure.
“It is relevant because we have strengthened the infrastructure with an investment of 400 million pesos, and many of us were accompanied to Teotihuacán with all the new signage, the new Museum of Mayan Grandeur,” he declared during the morning conference.
Security measures in Teotihuacán
The official highlighted the actions implemented in the Teotihuacán Archaeological Zone, where on April 20, a violent event occurred in the Pyramid of the Moon. Although he did not give details, he stressed that security operations have been reinforced to guarantee the visit.
The increase in visitors is also linked to the upcoming 2026 Soccer World Cup. Museums of the INAH, INBAL and the Ministry of Culture have mounted temporary exhibitions on the Mesoamerican ball game, an ancestral tradition of more than a thousand years.
“You know that the ball game is one of the most important ancestral ceremonies where the ball has been played in Mexico, in our country since Mesoamerican times for more than a thousand years,” said Curiel.
Featured exhibitions
Among the exhibits he mentioned the Museo Templo Mayor about the Ball Game in Tenochtitlan, and the National Museum of Anthropology exhibits photographs by Annie Leibovitz about the 1986 World Cup. In Fine Arts, “Aztlán” is presented, Chicano art and muralism by Roberto Montenegro. In the Museum of Modern Art there are permanent collections and experiences such as Sunrises and Sunsets in archaeological zones of Tula, Xochicalco and Boca de Potrerillos.
