Places are still available for the ARLIS/NA and IFLA Study Tour in Mexico August 20-26.  We’ve added even more events to this summer’s exciting Study Tour!   

Please see the attached agenda for the current schedule of visits.

As an appetizer, be sure to check out this month’s issue of the Art Newspaper, which focuses on Latin America.

To sign up, send a completed application, along with a $200 deposit check made out to ARLIS/NA to:

Kristen Regina

Hillwood Museum Library

4155 Linnean Ave NW

Washington, DC 20008

Together with the assistance of the IFLA Art Section Satellite meeting planners, the ARLIS/NA  International Relations Committee has organized an exciting study tour of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries in the Mexico City region, to take place August 20-26.  The specially-designed tour will incorporate and extend the IFLA program at the Franz Meyer museum, in order to offer attendees the unparalleled opportunity to visit many outstanding collections in the area.

Following the IFLA Satellite Meeting at the Franz Meyer Museum on August 20-21, our group, escorted by local experts, will make visits to major library and art collections, with behind the scenes tours and displays of special collections.  Privately hosted receptions at homes and galleries of prominent collectors will offer exclusive access to Mexico City’s thriving contemporary art scene.  The tour ends on August 26, with a bus trip to the beautiful colonial city of Puebla, where visits to the renowned Biblioteca Polifoxiana and Museo Amparo are planned.  We should also mention that outstanding accommodations, along with the best food and drink to be found in Mexico, will be offered, thanks to our contacts in Mexico and beyond.   Friends, scholars, curators, food critics, cookbook authors, staff of Mexican consulates and the Mexican Cultural Institute in New York, along with various bon vivants, have advised us on the Best of Mexico, insuring that both time-honored and recently discovered destinations will be included.  

Highlights of the tour include:

·         IFLA Art Libraries Satellite Conference

·         Franz Mayer Museum & Library

·         Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (UNAM)

·         Library José Vasconcelos

·         National Museum of Art and Library

·         Templo Mayor, Museo y Zona Arqueológica

·         TeotÍhuacan

·         Puebla and the Palafoxiana Library

Costs:

Participants are responsible for the following:

·         IFLA Art Libraries Satellite Conference Registration, August 20-21
[IFLA institutional member registration $100 US or Non-IFLA members registration $120US]

·         Shared cost of the Bus and Guide (TBD)

·         Airfare:
All participants should plan to arrive in Mexico City in time for the start of the IFLA program August 20.

·         Hotel:
Our Mexican Colleagues have reserved rooms at the Hilton Mexico City Reforma
Participants may wish to spend Friday night or longer in Puebla. We will provide more information on making reservations soon.

·         Meals and Miscellaneous:
Some evening meals and events (still to be determined) will be covered by the trip, but please be prepared to cover most of your own food and other miscellaneous costs.

Space on the trip is designated on first-come first-served basis. Spouses and partners are welcome to join evening and social events.  Applications will be accepted until all spaces are filled or by July 1, 2011.

We hope you will join us for an extraordinary week in Mexico!

Katharine Keller (Chair), Kristen Regina (past-Chair), Clayton Kirking, and Deborah Kempe on behalf of the IRC.