Artefacts from ancient Mexico are on display now at Eumundi Museum.
This is not something that you would usually expect to find in a regional museum on the Sunshine Coast. But it is an excellent example of the quality temporary exhibitions available for free at Eumundi Museum, along with the local history.
The pieces represent three distinct ethnic groups from different periods of the one site – the city of Teotihuacan. Once the biggest city in the Americas with a population of 200,000 people, Teotihuacan had a huge influence across Mexico for centuries. The artefacts on display spread across a thousand years from the Classic Period of 200-700 AD through to the Aztec era of 1300 – 1521 AD.
This is an amazing opportunity for a regional museum such as Eumundi as you will not find artefacts like this anywhere else in Queensland. If you are interested in history, if you are interested in the exotic, this is a must-see exhibition.
They belong to a private collector on the Sunshine Coast and they were identified a few years ago by Eumundi Museum’s director, Joe Hextall, who just happened to study Mesoamerican archaeology as an undergraduate before moving into museums.
Ancient Mexico is on now until January.
Free entry. Eumundi Museum is open 10am – 3pm, Tuesdays – Saturdays.
