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Americas at MEG

The Americas conjure up the great pre-Colombian civilisations and their spectacular pyramids, the northern Plains Indians hunting bison and the hunter-gatherers of the impenetrable Amazonian forests. Fragments of their history – and many others besides – are kept in the MEG and figure in this exhibition. Three great ensembles are represented in succession: North Americas (Canada, United States, and Greenland); Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica) and South Americas (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Chile). Themes such as adaptation to the environment, religion, power and the relationships between nature and culture establish links between very different regions and cultural groups.

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