City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan

City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan is a traveling exhibit funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and currently in development at the ASU Museum of Anthropology.

City Life is designed to break with the overly tidy view of history, awakening people to the human elements of these places and the similarities to and differences from our own cities of today. City Life will wed the humanities and archaeology with both traditional and new interactive technologies to share with diverse audiences the historic, cultural and social dynamics that once shaped this major urban civilization in the Americas. By focusing the exhibit theme on the experiences of ordinary people at Teotihuacan, visitors will be encouraged to draw parallels between Teotihuacan society and their own understandings and experiences of contemporary urban life.

Museum staff are currently in the research phase for this exhibit, with tentative plans for opening Fall 2010.

View from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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