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The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present is a touring exhibition which tells the "lost" history of the African contributions to Mexican culture over the past nearly 500 years, and attempts to generate a dialogue between Mexicans and African Americans in the U.S. The exhibition will be presented for an unprecedented eight months in all three of the MFACM's temporary exhibition galleries. The African Presence in Mexico will run from February 11 - September 3, 2006 and subsequently tour to at least three other museums in the U.S. and Mexico.

The African Presence in Mexico is the most comprehensive project ever organized about African contributions to Mexican culture featuring three exhibitions and public programming. The Main Gallery is showing the fine arts exhibition The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present, which illustrates the nearly 500-year history that Africans and Mexicans shared in Mexico from the time of the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of the first town of freed slaves in the Americas in Mexico, to the Afro-Mexicanos of the present day. The Center Gallery hosts the exhibition Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition, which uses visual art to discuss the complex relationship between African-Americans and Mexicans in the U.S. since the domestic slave trade as well as the ways in which African Americans have related to and continue to relate to Mexico.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Sunday 10am-5pm