The Night of the Museums is a unique annual experience that takes place in Guatemala. It provides an opportunity to learn about the country from a different perspective.
The «Between Letters, Postcards, and Cement,» exhibition held at the Palacio de Correos (Postal Palace), is a joint effort between the Postal Museum of Guatemala and the Carlos F. Novella Museum. This activity aims to showcase the similarities between the postal system and the cement industry through objects that have been part of the history of each of these institutions.
«This exhibition illustrates the similarities between the postal system and the cement industry throughout Guatemala’s recent history. It offers a different experience for visitors, presenting historical objects, documents, and photographs that have witnessed a bygone era,» comments Elisa Mencos, curator of the Carlos F. Novella Museum.
More than two thousand visitors attended the event on November 3. They admired objects from both museums’ collections and a series of historic postage stamps.
Additionally, copies of letters, envelopes, and telegrams from past eras were exhibited, connecting us with both moments in history and the people who wrote them.
Postage stamps related to international museums housed in the Postal Museum’s Philatelic Room were showcased. The exhibition also featured prominent figures in world history. Different themed postage stamps came from different parts of the were shown as part of the Carlos F. Novella Museum collection.
The Postal Museum of Correos de Guatemala’s entrance corridor displayed photographs of Guatemala’s Historic Center buildings, especially from the 1930s and 1940s. Each building is represented by an old photograph (by unknown authors) and a more recent one by Guatemalan photographer Edgar E. Sacayón.
This was a unique opportunity for two museums to come together to present this exhibition which celebrated the country’s valuable, tangible, and intangible, cultural heritage.
A total of 2,081 people visited the Correos de Guatemala’s Postal Museum on November 3rd.
