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Come and celebrate the Day of the Dead at the museum!

The Barbier-Mueller PreColumbian Art Museum of Barcelona presents for the third year in a row its Altar of Dead as a way of sharing the debauchery of creativity: flowers, candles, incense, sugar skulls, music and food, which characterise the Mexican festivity of the Day of the Dead.

The Altar of the Dead, the results of the collaboration between the Musuem, the shop of the Museum and the Consulate General of Mexico in Barcelona, is dedicated this year to the Mexican-Catalan artist, the designer of the Altar for the last two years. This year it will be her sister, Marisa Pecanins, who will be charged with doing so.

The Day of the Dead is a very important date for the Mexicans, who celebrate with music, dances, candles, food and offerings in memory of their ancestors. These are days in which the living and dead share yearnings, memories, longings, aspirations and ideas.

The offering or Altar of the Dead can have three levels representing heaven, limbo, and the earth, or in other cases, seven levels that correspond to the symbology of the seven Aztec heavens that have to be crossed to reach the Mictlàn.

The celebration dates back to the PreColumbian world, in which the conception of death was not associated to a question of award or punishment. Prehispanic man conceived death as a one more process in the constant cycle of life, and not as something tragic.

The Altar will be in the courtyard of the Museum from 1st to 8th November and can be visited during the usual opening tomes of the museum.