Minister Alejandro López visited museums in the state of Lara to evaluate his heritage

Published at: 05/10/2026 10:09 AM

The Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Alejandro López, took a tour of three museum spaces in the state of Lara, with the objective of reviewing the archaeological and paleontological heritage of the entity.

Along with the Deputy Minister for the Promotion of Cultural Economy, Rosario Soto, López visited the Jesús Salazar Paleontological and Community Museum, which preserves evidence of prehistoric fauna, including megatery and mastodon bones, a specimen of glyptodon and a piece of camelid that is currently undergoing specialized studies.

In Quíbor, the authorities toured the Francisco Tamayo Yepes Anthropological Museum (MAQ), whose six rooms are dedicated to funerary customs, pottery, agriculture, hunting, habitat and territories. The collection includes archaeological pieces linked to the music, art and daily practices of the original peoples who inhabited the region.

The visit also included the Barquisimeto Museum, where there is the exhibition “Kurare: Where Ancestrality, Color and Creativity Come Together”, with works by Roseliano García, Hernán “Kike” Medina, Raiza Barros, Antonio Evís, Jorge Sánchez and Hennri Gil. The proposals explore elements such as the Larense landscape, nature, ancestry and indigenous knowledge through different materials and contemporary languages.

As part of the day, López and Soto also learned about the facilities of the Quiboc 97.1 FM radio station and the Center for Scientific Research, which has a documentation center and a laboratory for recording, cataloguing and studying archaeological and paleontological materials.

The tour made it possible to evaluate the conditions of these spaces and their collections, with the purpose of strengthening their functioning and contributing to the preservation of the cultural, archaeological and paleontological memory and heritage of the Lara state.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team