The Museo del Niwan Nha in Yalambojoch, Guatemala

Abstract

A community museum is currently being established at the Niwan Nha Cultural Centre in the Guatemalan village of Yalambojoch. Through a collaboration with the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, copies of stone sculptures collected for the museum by Eduard Seler in the 19th century at neighbouring archaeological sites are helping residents to connect with a local past that has been locally lost to collecting and looting activities.