![]() In Mexico, Día de los Muertos can be celebrated by entire communities gathering together at cemeteries to clean and decorate graves of loved ones. And, of course, remembrance of those people here on Earth." And so it's combined together to form a very unique tradition and understanding and rituals that deal with the idea of life after death. "It's the ancient indigenous cosmology and the Spanish Catholicism that was brought over with the arrival of the Europeans. "It's a combination of two spiritual belief systems," Moreno says. But the roots of the holiday itself go back centuries. This is the 34th year that the museum has commemorated Día de los Muertos, also called Día de Muertos. National Museum of Mexican Art Catrina candelabro (Fancy Lady Candle Holder) by Pedro Hernández of Michoacán, Mexico, 2016, ceramic, black paint and wire. So the best way we could think of symbolizing that is with the numbers." And so it's difficult to really try to commemorate something that you are still in the middle of. In the past, the museum has honored people who died in hurricanes and earthquakes, or those who died in the desert while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.īut memorializing an ongoing tragedy is more difficult than an event that has come and gone, Moreno tells NPR's Michel Martin on All Things Considered. ![]() They give us an idea of where we're at."Īn electronic counter, updated each day, displays the number of people who have died of COVID-19. "Like so many other rituals in our lives, they're more than just a marker of time or season. "It was really important that we still put on this exhibition," says Cesáreo Moreno, the museum's chief curator and visual arts director. National Museum of Mexican Art Noche de muertos con arco y ángeles (Night of the Dead with Arch and Angels) by Antonia Felipe Cadelario of Michoacán, Mexico, 2002, polychrome ceramic.
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