Museum of Mormon History in Mexico attracts thousands
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — More than 10,000 visitors, including those of other faiths, visited the Museum of Mormon History in Mexico during 2000, said Fernando Gomez, president and co-founder of the facility.
One third of the visitors are not members, said Brother Gomez, a former mission president.
The museum is located across the street from the Mexico City Mexico Temple. Its mission for the past six years has been to collect, preserve and exhibit the history of the Church in Mexico.
The museum featured exhibits on the temple; missionary work in Mexico, with 500 photographs of currently serving missionaries; a photographic display of the Conference Center in Salt Lake City; and an exposition on the city of Cuernavaca, where missionary work in Mexico was re-opened in 1901. A BYU Travel Studies tour will take place in this area June 5-13.
A program about prophets was also presented for representatives of Islamic, Catholic, Buddhist, Hare Krishna and Tibetan faiths.
In addition, the museum obtained significant journals and letters during the year, including those of James Z. Stewart, one of the first missionaries to Mexico; copies of pages of the first translation of the Book of Mormon into Spanish; letters, photographs and manuscripts of early LDS leader Magarito Bautista; and a set of 16 pages written by Platino C. Rhodakanaty, the first convert in southern Mexico.
The museum also initiated plans to reconstruct the 1930 San Gabriel Ometoxtla Meetinghouse.
