Resumen de Historia y vida cotidiana: la apropiación del patrimonio mexica dentro y fuera del Museo del Templo Mayor
Starting from the position of the context from the Major Temple Museum (MTM by its initials in Spanish) emerges, and of the agents who participated in its definition and in the objetives, contents and means used in it, Ana Rosas inquires into the appropiation of the Aztec heritage inside and institutional space (the MTM) and into archeological zone which offers an alternative cultural offer). Besides, she describes the public that attends this museum, with the purpose of contrasting their general characteristics with the ones of the average inhabitan of this city (establishing their differences) to, finally, undertake the matter of the identification of the visitors and non visitors. with the Mexican world. This paper proposes that the museums are privileged forms where a nation heritage is dramatized. but this appropiation is mediated by many factors among those are the ones at educational and income levels. Nevertheless it finds its deeper roots in everyday life of the public.
