Museography / Museology
Fond Iker Larrauri
The architect Iker Larrauri (Mexico City, 1929) was a pioneer of educational museography, specializing in museums of archeology, ethnography and anthropology. He was involved in the creation of the “El Caracol” History Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, part of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, where he was Director of Museums from 1973 to 1977. In 1979, together with architect and museographer Jorge Agostoni, he founded the studio Museográfica, which became well known in Mexico and abroad.
The archive documents different projects, such as the Commemorative Program for the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, the Puebla Museum of Colonial Art, the Museum of the Bajío and the Omniciencia Project in Monterrey, and includes sketches, manuals, correspondence, articles and studies.
Fond Jorge Agostoni
Jorge Agostoni (Milan, 1939-Mexico City, 2015), architect, museologist and museographer, pioneered and promoted the professionalization of museography in Mexico, collaborated on dozens of museums including the National Anthropology Museum and received the Miguel Covarrubias award for the Museum of Mexican History in Monterrey (1996) and the National Museum of Art (2001).
In 1977 he established the studio Museográfica together with Iker Larrauri, the first in Mexico specialized in the planning, design and installation of museums and exhibitions. Larrauri and Agostoni won the “European Museum of the Year” award (1995) for the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. They were consultants to UNESCO for the planning of several museums in Egypt. The collection contains projects, curatorial guidelines, sketches, drawings, thematic investigations, photographs and designs produced by Museográfica and Jorge Agostoni Arquitectos.
