Bolivia opens $7m museum honouring President Morales
Bolivia opens $7m museum honouring President Morales
Facility dubbed the ‘Evo museum’ criticised for location in poor rural area
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The Museum of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution in Orinoca, Bolivia. Photograph: Martin Alipaz/EPA
Associated Press
Friday 3 February 2017 12.55 EST
School notebooks and T-shirts from famous footballers are among the many personal objects displayed at a new $7m (£5.6m) museum inaugurated by the Bolivian president, Evo Morales.
Unveiled in his native village of Orinoca, in the altiplano, the new institution is officially called the Museum of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution. The culture minister, Wilma Alanoca, said the new facility was the “largest and most modern museum in Bolivia”.
However, Bolivia’s political opposition has dubbed it the “Evo museum” and is questioning its cost and ostentatiousness in a rural area of humble homes where there is deep poverty.
The museum’s three wings have interactive rooms and digital exhibits detailing the struggles of Bolivia’s people throughout history. But the main attraction is the personal objects and exhibits devoted to Morales, Bolivia’s long-serving leftist president and its first leader to come from an indigenous group.
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President Evo Morales in front of a painting of him at the museum. Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/bolivia-opens-7m-museum-honouring-president-morales
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museo de Evo Morales en Orinoca
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Evo Morales as a young soldier.