Located at Tacuba 17 in Mexico City, here is their website. The building is splendid, the exhibits are insipid. There is lots on how money is coined (the museum is an initiative of the Bank of Mexico), the circular flow of economic activity, gdp, and social indicators. There are many buttons to press, although to what end is not clear. Opportunity cost gets one computer display and division of labor is mentioned. Taxonomy and description are favored above all. Overhead videos hang from the ceiling and a pulley system drags plastic copies of Mexican products through the room above your head.
Occasionally there is a propagandistic tinge: "Of all the services our government doles out to you, which do you value the most?"
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The interesting question is what museums can teach well. Paintings and sculptures, for sure, and perhaps history. But can museums teach abstract concepts, modes of reasoning, and ways of thinking? Here is a science, economics, and technology museum in Milwaukee, is it any good?
At the Museo the bathrooms are clean, lavish, and architecturally superb, the nicest I have seen in downtown Mexico City.
Re: Discovery World, they have a nice little aquarium, but overall I don’t think it is as nice as say the Museum of Science in Boston. I had no idea they were supposed to be about economics. The best permanent exhibit would have to be the view of the Milwaukee Museum of Art Calatrava Building, and that is no small thing.
I once went to the Yubari Robot Museum. As best I could tell, its inspiration was derived mainly from Johnny 5.
Tyler, did you visit the market simulator exhibit in the museum? It is a market simulation where a group of students (20-30) get to virtually trade goods and services using PDAs. Half of the visitors are “buyers” and half “sellers”. The current “price” of every good is graphed in real time on computer displays. At the end of a round the trend in prices is graphed, and it intended to serve as a demonstration of supply and demand.
The Museum of Science in Boston has an exhibit on Mathematics that is very good at conveying abstract concepts. (It is a copy of one no longer appearing at the California Science Center in LA. Another copy is being restored in Atlanta’s Science and Technology Museum.)
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