EXHIBIT: Splendors of Thirty Centuries & Destination Mexico

Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries presents three thousand years of Mexican culture and history through photographs of stone sculptures from prehistoric times, liturgical artifacts from Colonial days, nineteenth-century portraits and landscapes, and works on canvas and paper by twentieth-century muralists.  An exhibition based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art’s international exhibition and is organized by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Destination México illuminates eight decades of tourist travel to Mexico, from the first rail connections in the mid-1880s to the advent of the jet age in the late 1950s. In the 1880s, private companies and entrepreneurs in the United States began promoting Mexico as “a Foreign Land a Step Away.”
 
The exhibition is organized by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University, the Clements Center for Southwest Study, and Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.