Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano

Passionate about textiles and museums, he studied conservation and restoration of movable property at the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía “Manuel del Castillo Negrete” in Mexico City, where he was born. Since 2012, he is the Director of the Museo Textil de Oaxaca (MTO). He joined the museum’s team in 2008, shortly before its inauguration, as Coordinator of Conservation and Collections. He arrived at the museum because of his undergraduate thesis, based on a feathered textile of the late seventeenth century which belonged to the MTO’s collection. The research allowed the museum’s team to recreate a technique that had practically disappeared, and after 10 years of work and through workshops with people from different communities dedicated to spinning, dyeing and weaving, an exhibition on contemporary feathered textiles was organized. He is still in close connection with the collections, through the elaboration of MTO’s museographic design, as well as his involvement in the management of the collections and exhibition program. He has been a member of the Board of the North American Textile Conservation Conference since 2008, and co-organizes the biennial Encuentro de Textiles Mesoamericanos, which takes place in Oaxaca, since 2014.