Vitrina de Antropología (In)Visible. Cotidiano o extraordinario. Dos formas de mirar

A showcase in the reception area of the Museo Nacional de Antropología brings together pieces from its collection to explore what objects mean today when they move from everyday life into the museum gallery.

The display is set out in the showcase located in the reception area of the Museo Nacional de Antropología, in Madrid. Drawing on a selection of objects from the collection, the museum reflects on their present-day meaning and on the way they change depending on where they are placed.

The approach starts from a question common in the discipline of anthropology: how an object used in daily life in its context of origin can become a work of art on arriving at a museum, and what happens to a piece of great aesthetic and symbolic value for a community when it is shown far from its place of origin and within the institutional narrative.

The title sums up the axis of the display, which sets the everyday against the extraordinary as two ways of looking at the same object. The proposal is particularly suited to those interested in anthropology and in the role of museums in interpreting their collections, with a brief route centred on the showcase.