{"id":34835,"date":"2017-07-27T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=34835"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:35:29","slug":"mexican-museum-defends-its-legitimacy-corrects-journalists-inaccurate-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/mexican-museum-defends-its-legitimacy-corrects-journalists-inaccurate-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Museum defends its legitimacy, corrects journalists\u2019 inaccurate reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Maya Classic ceramic vase with \u201cpseudoglyphs,\u201d that are mostly ornamental. It is one of the pieces authenticated in the preliminary study of The Mexican Museum\u2019s pre-Hispanic collection. Courtesy: The Mexican Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/b>Earlier this month, San Francisco\u2019s Mexican Museum found itself at the center of controversy after Mission Local ran a story with a misleading headline suggesting that most of the museum\u2019s pre-Hispanic collection was \u201cinsignificant or fake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mission Local\u2019s story was the sole source cited in stories by numerous media outlets across the United States and internationally, all of them describing the collection as lacking in value.<\/p>\n

Museum representatives insist the controversy is a misunderstanding. The negative media coverage was based on a misreading of an analysis of the preliminary assessment of the museum\u2019s pre-Hispanic collection, which includes approximately 1,700 pieces.<\/p>\n

Eighty-three pieces were preselected for the permanent collection as being of \u201cmuseum quality,\u201d while the rest were classified as \u201cunauthenticated.\u201d<\/p>\n

In archaeological terminology, \u201cinauthentic\u201d and \u201cunauthenticated\u201d have very different meanings. \u201cInauthentic\u201d refers to confirmed reproduction, or forgeries, while \u201cunauthenticated\u201d means inconclusive\u2014that further analysis is required before a final determination can be made.<\/p>\n

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The Mexican Museum\u2019s current location in Fort Mason. Photo: Jay Garcia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Media outlets, used the terms interchangeably, alleging that the artifacts listed in the study as \u201ccurrently unauthenticated\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>(about 96 percent of the pre-Hispanic collection) were \u201cfake\u201d or \u201cotherwise lacking in value.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the recurring causes I\u2019ve found in these misunderstandings comes from the usage of two different languages, an academic one, and a journalistic one,\u201d said Eduardo Perez de Heredia, an archaeologist with Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Anthropology and History and author of the study.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some reason, the report was inaccurately cited by press to support erroneous conclusions, without consulting me about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

SF Gate reported that most of the objects in the collection were \u201ceither forgeries or cannot be authenticated,\u201d while El Pais, a newspaper from Spain described the collection as suitable \u201cfor throwing in the trash.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been some misunderstandings \u2026 that pieces that were not selected for the permanent exhibitions have no value, but we never said that. It\u2019s not on my report,\u201d said Perez de Heredia during a recent press conference.<\/p>\n

Andrew Kluger, chairman of the board for The Mexican Museum, held a press conference to address the controversy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt spread like wildfire,\u201d Kluger said. \u201cThe fact that all other pieces were not authentic is absolutely incorrect… Those pieces just have to go through a process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report by Perez de Heredia, obtained by Mission Local from an anonymous source, was also only preliminary. It does not include a final list of found forgeries.<\/p>\n

In the report, which the museum shared with El Tecolote, only two artifacts are described as being definitively confirmed reproductions, though it is expected that further analysis could find more, something not uncommon for museums all over the world.<\/p>\n

From community organization to world-class museum<\/b><\/p>\n

The Mexican Museum, founded by artist Peter Rodriguez in 1975, started as a small community nonprofit. In its early effort to amass as large a collection as possible, the museum welcomed all donations, even those that could not be immediately authenticated.<\/p>\n

It has grown considerably since. In 2012 it became an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum and research complex in the world, a partnership that includes strict guidelines for the assessment of artifacts.<\/p>\n

To ensure compliance with national museum standards, the Mexican Museum contracted Sari Bermudez, who served as Mexico\u2019s Minister of Culture under former president Vicente Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these Mexican-Americans who started this museum did it out of so much love for their culture,\u201d Bermudez told El Tecolote. \u201cSo everybody decided to bring in what they could, but now the time has come to evaluate all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bermudez has been tasked with assessing the museum\u2019s six permanent collections: pre-Hispanic; Colonial, Popular (also known as \u201cfolk art\u201d); 19th Century; Modern; and Contemporary & Chicano. Together they add up to approximately 14,000 artifacts.<\/p>\n

Bermudez is enlisting a variety of experts to examine each collection, and brought Perez de Heredia to conduct the first preliminary examination of the pre-Hispanic collection, which spans 2,000 years of history and includes objects from north, central and South America.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in his report, Perez de Heredia \u201cconducted during six days a physical examination of the collection,\u201d a time span too brief to conduct definitive dating analysis on 1,700 pieces. The report recommends a more comprehensive follow up using more precise dating techniques, like thermoluminescence.<\/p>\n

Bermudez clarified that the 83 pieces preselected by Perez de Heredia are considered masterpieces, but this doesn\u2019t mean the other pieces lack value.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he said was that 83 pieces \u2026 are of superb quality, they\u2019re masterworks. There\u2019s more pieces that were used in everyday life …some needed to be restored\u2026 other pieces were very good pieces but \u2026 were not grand works of art,\u201d Bermudez said.<\/p>\n

Pieces not selected for the final collection will be used for educational purposes. Artifacts that are determined to be high-end forgeries can be brought to schools for demonstrations, where original pieces would be too delicate to take outside of the museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the real story is that over 80 pieces are considered great pieces, great masters,\u201d Bermudez added. \u201cUsually to find such high quality pieces outside of Mexico is already surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perez de Heredia clarified: \u201cWe have a lot of pieces that aren\u2019t suitable for the permanent collection. But that doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s false or not worth studying. All museums have a primary selection and have a basement with pieces that would never get exhibited. That doesn\u2019t mean that all the rest aren\u2019t of value.\u201d<\/p>\n

A final authentication of all collections is estimated to take 18 months, and must be completed before the museum moves from its current location in Fort Mason to a new building in Yerba Buena in 2020. The new venue\u2014the last remaining space in the Yerba Buena Gardens Art District, will feature 60,000 square feet of exhibition space.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m somewhat saddened about so much unnecessary misinterpretation, which put the collection in a negative light, when in reality, it has many high quality pieces,\u201d Perez de Heredia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the work of the people of San Francisco,\u201d said Bermudez. \u201cIt\u2019s their struggle \u2026 we will know if we passed the test the day of the opening, that\u2019s when we will know if we\u2019ve turned it into an international museum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, San Francisco\u2019s Mexican Museum found itself at the center of controversy after Mission Local ran a story with a misleading headline suggesting that most of the museum\u2019s pre-Hispanic collection was \u201cinsignificant or fake.\u201d Mission Local\u2019s story was the sole source cited in stories by numerous media outlets across the United States and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":34836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3929],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nMexican Museum defends its legitimacy, corrects journalists\u2019 inaccurate reporting - 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