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Museo Magütá

Magütá Museum

Magütá MuseumMagütá Ethnographic Museum of Mocagua

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XIV SALSA Biennial Conference 2023

Museo Magütá-Bienvenidos

The Magütá Museum is a family heritage, created in 2019 by Abel Antonio Santos, Magütá teacher and linguist, who completed his PhD at the Amazonia campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. For 20 years, the creation of a museographic space was devised with the elements and materials that were collected by Abel during the development of the linguistic workshops and his participation in the Magütá rituals of passage. In 2019 the idea came to fruition and the space was built. The museum has archaeological and ethnographic pieces from the Magütá people.

The Magütá recordings stored in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of the Amazon (ARDILIA) are part of the collections of this Museum.

Actividades

Opening hours: 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.,  from Monday to Sunday

Museum interpretation time: 25 min. approx.

  1. Interpretation of the Magütá Museum.
  2. Clay, painting and weaving workshops.
  3. Research.

Magütá Museum

How to plan a visit to the Magütá Museum

  1. Purchase of tickets on the public fluvial boat Leticia – Mocagua
  2. Purchase of return tickets to Leticia with reserved space on the public boat route
  3. Payment of entrance to the community of Mocagua
  4. Payment of admission to the Magütá Museum

Optional: lunch in the community

Public river boat Leticia-Mocagua schedules:

  • 1st route. 7:00 am
  • 2nd route. 10:00 a.m.
  • 3rd route. 1:00 pm

Return Mocagua – Leticia:

  • 1st route. 11:00 am
  • 2nd route. 3:00 pm

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