Entre el desafío y el signo: Identidad y diferencia en el Museo de América de Madrid

museums are social and cultural texts crossed by their reply to other ideas and the reflections of their own. in these spaces things are said, ideas enounced and things made, in other words -the reality is ordained, valued and given a hierarchical structure, which transmit a way of seeing the world. this work attempts to find out what the museum of america in madrid does, to whom challenge and how it builds up its position in relation to the past and present of a continent and its relations with the old metropoli.