México
Network of Community Museums of America

http://www.museoscomunitarios.org

Teresa Morales  

Teresa Morales studied Anthropology at Dartmouth College, USA and Mexican History at the Autonomous National University of Mexico. She has been a research professor of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico since 1981. From 1985 to the present she has helped establish 24 community museums in the state of Oaxaca, together with her husband, Cuauhtémoc Camarena, collaborating intensely with adults and young people to build consensus, select themes, develop research, design and install exhibitions. They also helped create the grassroots networks, the Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca, in 1991 and the National Union of Community Museums and Ecomuseums of Mexico in 1994. In 2000 they began to develop the Network of Community Museums of America, which currently brings together community museums from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia. Their main publications include “Memoria: Red de Museos Comunitarios de América. Experiencias de Museos Comunitarios y Redes Nacionales” (Coords., 2016);El museo comunitario: un espacio para el ejercicio del poder; (2009). Teresa received a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2003 and the Prize for Innovative Work in Museums from the Hans Manneby Foundation, Sweden, in 2010.