Through its national network of museums and various archaeological sites under its tutelage, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)
has prepared a wide range of virtual activities to celebrate the Day of the Children.
As part of "With you in the distance," the Ministry of Culture invites children to solve games such as a crossword or memorama, as well as to color the mural “The extinct fauna of the Pleistocene,” among other activities arranged in the catalog "Hobby Book", which can be downloaded for your enjoyment.
In the same way, they will be able to find the hidden words in the "Thematic Alphabet Soup", according to the theme of their choice; "Series of the life of the Virgin," "Museum of Guadalupe," "New Hispanic painters," "Cloister Pasión de Christ,” and “Cloister of San Francisco.”
Likewise, the INAH TV YouTube channel has programmed a series of 24 narrated animated stories, capsules and chapters of the Archaeologists in distress program. Also, Radio INAH makes available various programs on issues related to childhood: "Screaming Children, a Formal Job for Minors," "Children's Day in the Media Library," "Children According to the UN," "Children according to UNESCO,” “Usefulness of Games and Toys in the Indigenous World,”and “ Mexican Popular Toy.”
MNCM has also prepared the film show “Stop Motion”, a selection of 16 short films from the Stop Motion Mexico Festival, with productions from Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the United States, and Mexico. The appointment is Friday 30, at 5:00 p.m., via YouTube.
In turn, on Friday the 30th, the Museum of El Carmen will hold the “Cake pops” class, with a cat theme, by Christian Haziel Martín Mazias, chef from the Corbusé Gastronomic Institute. This activity, limited to 200 participants, will be carried out through the Zoom platform, after registering with the league.
The National Museum of the Viceroyalty will present the stage performance of music and mime Fortunata, the wheel of fortune, a fragment of the work Song for the heart of a child, which is a tribute to the Mexican toy; on Friday 30, throughout the day, on their You Tube site.
The Museo del Templo Mayor, starting at 10:00 am on April 30, through its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, will begin its activities with the board game with pre-Hispanic references "Build a Minitzompantli and Play Matatena ”, then “Tláloc Celebrates the Children,” continued by the memory game "Ser Niño y Niña Mexica," with elements of this ancient culture.
Through a comic, the museum complex will explain the birth of the maguey in "The history of Mayahuel," and will offer a memory game with pre-Hispanic animals in "Animalia tu Memorama." At 5:00 p.m., there will be the talk "Archaeologists: Detectives of the Past," with the researcher Emiliano Melgar Tísoc.
Finally, the Archaeological Zone and the Cuicuilco Site Museum will present the infographic "The Traditional Mexican Toy," which explains the manufacture of the ball, puppets, the rattle, the spinning top, the pirinola and the yoyo, on Friday the 30th, at 10:00 am, through their Facebook page.