Moctezuma

Moctezuma is here! This new section coincides with the opening of the major exhibition at the British Museum (Autumn 2009). We will assemble here a wide range of articles and reports that we feel are of interest to teachers and learners alike...

The Mexicolore team attended the Teachers’ Preview of Moctezuma - it was a privilege to be among the first non-Museum-staff to see the beautiful exhibits... We were treated to a gallery tour and talk by the curator, Colin McEwan.

December 2009: We’ve now run plenty of workshops at the BM this term. One recent comment from someone who attended a Family Day Aztec workshop with Mexicolore: ‘Very informative for adults and children. Extremely well presented by people with a passion for the subject.’

Guardian feature

Moctezuma, Montezuma, Motecuhzoma

- what’s in a name...?

How did Moctezuma die?

How did he WANT to die?

‘The view from the metate’ -

women and the Aztec world

Isabel de Moctezuma - trying to reconstruct

the biography of ‘the last Mexica princess’

Leonardo López Luján brings us up-to-date

in the search for Moctezuma’s predecessors

While the Tudors strummed

the Mexica ‘sang with their feet...’

Ancient Mexican figures continue

to inspire today’s stone workers

At the BM Community Preview

the gentler side of the Mexica came to the fore...

Teachers are encouraged to say -

From now on they’re the Mexica!

Moctezuma’s in town!

Join us at the BM...

Mexica turquoise craftsmen had reached

the cutting edge of their art

Tracking the provenance of Mexica-Mixtec

turquoise mosaics at the BM

The Full Monte(zuma): London hosts

an international symposium and major exhibition

The Life and Times of

Motecuhzuma Xocoyotzin