The largest showcase ever of Mayan artifacts found in Belize is going on right now. But it's not happening at the museum of Belize - that's space is too small. It's happening at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul Minnesota. The ambitious exhibit is called Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed, and at a cost of over four million US dollars and sprawling over 17 thousand square feet, the show is a stunner. So much so that Jules Vasquez and camera man Codie Norales left sunny Belize on Friday to go to snowy, subzero St. Paul, Minnesota to see the show themselves. They just came back a few hours ago - but tonight we have a brief preview of what the show and the story is about:...
Paul Martin, Vice President, Exhibits
"This exhibition is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever done on the Mayan and the reason that its different from many other exhibitions that we've seen - our partnership with the National Institute of Culture and History was really key in making this whole exhibition successful because it really looks at research that's happening right now and the new knowledge that's being created on the ground in Belize in those really rich archeological sites."
Dr. Ed Fleming, Curator of Archaeology
"There have been many exhibits about the Maya done over the years but Belize is rarely mentioned very prominently. There's often many objects from Guatemala and from Mexico but Belize tend to be downplayed and it really shouldn't be, we saw this exhibit as an opportunity to really showcase the wonderful treasures and the archeology of Belize."
Two hundred of the 300 artifacts in the show are from Belize. We'll have the full story later this week.
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