With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).

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Monuments, such as Mexico city's lavish anthropology museum, were built in their honour, and artists like Diego Rivera glorified Indian history in their government-commissioned murals.

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The archaeology exhibit, a collaboration between the science centre, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the National Geographic Society, displays props, drawings, and set designs from the Indiana Jones movies as well as actual artefacts from real-life digs.

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Today Alemseged is the director of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, a multifaceted scientific institution and museum where he combines his scientific research with his passion for public education.

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