Museo de la Música Mexicana Rafael Tovar y de Teresa

Permanent museum · Puebla, Mexico · 2016

Museo de la Música Mexicana Rafael Tovar y de Teresa

Proyecto Museo developed the architectural, museum exhibition, graphic, and lighting design for the Museo de la Música Mexicana Rafael Tovar y de Teresa. The proposal integrates objects, instruments, display cases, graphics, audiovisual media, and interactive resources within the former La Constancia Mexicana factory.

Challenge
Interpret the historical and social diversity of Mexican music within a former industrial hall by integrating collections, audiovisual media and interactive experiences.
Response
A thematic route organizes instruments, objects, images and technological resources through stages of music history while keeping the complex’s industrial architecture legible.
Scope
Architectural design · Exhibition design · Graphic design · Lighting design
Project data
2016 · Puebla, Mexico · Client: INBA and the Government of the State of Puebla · Creative direction: Proyecto Museo.
Institutional information
Mexico’s Sistema de Información Cultural lists the museum at the former La Constancia Mexicana factory and records December 21, 2016 as its founding date. Consultar ficha SIC.
Gallery at the Museo de la Música Mexicana after the exhibition-design intervention
Before / after. The photographs were taken from slightly different viewpoints. The comparison documents the spatial and exhibition-design transformation; it is not intended as an exact photogrammetric match.

Proyecto Museo + Visualma · 2016

Interactive installations and 360° 3D projection mapping

Technology cases associated with the Museo de la Música Mexicana Rafael Tovar y de Teresa.

Documented transformation

From industrial hall to museum environment

The before view shows the industrial space without an installation. The after view shows display cases, museum lighting, graphics, objects, and display systems integrated into the existing architecture.

Gallery

Space, collection and experience

The visual archive documents the project’s spaces, installation and exhibition resources.