If you're visiting Cancun, there's a fairly good chance that you'll find your way to the fabulous beaches and glimmering nightclubs, but this classic party capital holds a few secret cultural hot spots that are worth looking out for as well. A quirky little museum called La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano, for example, is one of the few places you can view ancient Aztec-influenced sculpture, traditional Mexican folk art, and contemporary paintings and textiles under one (small) roof. Devoted to maintaining Mexican culture and popular art, the museum (and its accompanying museum shop) has objects of all kinds, from masks and figurines to miniature churches everything in between. The collection of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Day) artwork and iconography is unparalleled, with armies of skeletons and demons representing society's relationship with concepts of death and the afterlife. And you won't want to miss the antique tortilla press. It reminds you of just how good the tortilla makers of today have it. La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano is located in the hotel zone, just minutes from the Westin Resort & Spa, Cancun, Le Méridien Cancun Resort & Spa, and the soon-to-open Westin Langunamar Ocean Resort, which will welcome its first guests on August 11, 2008.
Destination Spotlight - Cancun - La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano
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