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Museum of Death Preps for ‘Day of The Dead’ Celebrations

(USA Today) – Dead men may tell no tales, but death itself — well, in Mexico, the subject fills an entire museum.

The National Museum of Death, founded two years ago, explores the country’s macabre interest in death and dying, from the mass human sacrifices of the Aztecs to modern-day Day of the Dead celebrations, which begin Sunday.

In its galleries, human skulls encrusted with turquoise grimace at visitors. Tiny skeletons gather around miniature banquet tables, toasting their own demise. The Grim Reaper glares across a room at a case full of bloody crucifixes.

“Mexicans have death imprinted all over their art and culture,” museum director Jose Antonio Padilla said. “So why not a museum about it?”

The museum came about because a Mexican art collector had a lot of skeletons in his closet: dozens of tiny calaveritas, or skeleton dioramas, along with hundreds of other death-related artworks he had acquired over 50 years.

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