They adapt the Museum of the Viceroyalty to receive disabled people

Tepotzotlán, Mex. The National Museum of the Viceroyalty, with the supervision and definitions of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), is preparing the construction of an elevator for visitors with disabilities or older adults, who with greater mobility can access the different rooms of the cultural venue. , which zealously preserves more than 34,133 pieces of the collection from the time of the viceroyalty.

“The Castle of the Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of Medicine, all the buildings have had to adapt an elevator, first because it is a law, because we have to provide facilities for people who have disabilities, and second, here the “The building has three floors and very long corridors,” commented the director of the National Museum of the Viceroyalty (MNV), María Amparo Clausell Arroyo, in an interview conducted this Wednesday.

Clausell Arroyo reported that personnel from the Monuments and Sites and Works and Projects subdirectorates of the INAH are the ones who define the location of the elevator, carry out subsoil analysis and analyze the space where the excavations will be.

For this reason, two weeks ago the INAH staff carried out subsoil studies using a georadar to define, detect or rule out the existence of some pipes or other materials in the site where the elevator will be installed, commented the director.

“The georadar came about two weeks ago, now they are going to come again from the side where the elevator is going to be, they have to dig and physically see, but already knowing with the georadar studies what is below,” the official explained, and He added that once work begins he will expand on the topic.

The new Board of Benefactors of the MNV, which was made up of businessmen, merchants and Mexican residents, mainly, will collaborate in the consolidation of the project for the benefit of people with disabilities or older adults who visit the three-story cultural space.

The intention to build an elevator was announced on September 19 of this year, during the start ceremony of the commemorative celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the MNV, inaugurated on September 19, 1964, in an event chaired by the director general of the INAH, Diego Prieto Hernández and the director of the MNV, María Amparo Clausell.

During the anniversary ceremony, Diego Prieto presented the Board of Benefactors of the MNV, and reported that it is a free association, organized by citizens, whose objective is to support the Museum in its task of “study, care, recovery, defense, dissemination and social enjoyment of our cultural heritage, particularly that which corresponds to the viceroyalty of New Spain.”

At this event, a commemorative plaque for the 60th Anniversary of the Museum was also unveiled, which since 1964 has been housed in the building of the former Jesuit college, an emblematic space for baroque architecture, which could soon have an elevator for special visitors.