Exposed Museum. The collection of modern art of the UNAM 1950-1990 was the first university curatorial and museographic laboratory of Mexico which was in permanent renovation of its collection and in constant interaction with the public. The practices generated resulted in a series of interdisciplinary exhibitions that combined multiple museographic resources with an intense research process. The project was conceived with the aim of rehabilitating the University Collections hall of the CCUT, at the same time promoting more knowledge about the UNAM collections and the mediation processes that are carried out when conceiving an exhibition.
Exposed Museum allows us to reflect on the functions, objectives and resources of the UNAM university museums, giving rise to a social and educational meeting that allows the public a critical relationship with the cultural heritage.
The aim was to design and construct an exhibition environment that would respond to the curatorial approach while considering the technical and equipment requirements and facilities for flexibility, modulation and the constant transformation of the exhibition space.
The museographic proposal faced two main challenges: The first was to create a versatile museum space and furniture that would allow the work rotations that were planned for this exhibition. In other words, the furniture had to adapt to the work changing, as well as its dimensions. The solution was to create mobile museographic walls, which allowed to change the size of the area established for each module according to the dimensions of the new work. On the other hand, showcases with modifiable backgrounds were also designed to exhibit works with different depths.
The second challenge was to adapt to the diversity of topics in the exhibition modules. Given the didactic vocation of the exhibition, the aim was to communicate different themes or aspects, which practically represented ten small exhibitions for each theme. The solution was proposed using panels of different shapes and with different colors to homogenize and give different hierarchies to the exhibition.
The Project was awarded the Miguel Covarrubias National Prize by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia for the best museum in 2014.
