By: Claudia Rodriguez
MUSA Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara
and MCA Museum of Environmental Science

Through the University of Guadalajara Foundation | USA, the Universidad de Guadalajara presents their most relevant museum projects: MUSA Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara and MCA Museum of Environmental Science.

MUSA is a museum with 27 years of history. Their exhibition program includes activities in which the arts become an impulse to motivate social transformation. Their compromise with the environment was consolidated with a state certification that recognizes the process and actions of the institution to protect the natural environment. The MUSA Museum of the Arts was one of the first university properties that implemented sustainable actions related to the management and recycling of waste, as well as, the rational use of water and energy.

The MCA Museum of Environmental Science is an upcoming project of the university. Envisioned as a space engaging with the community in order to foster a sense of belonging through empathy and closeness, that will lead the community to initiate actions of ecology preservation. There are three main visions that constitute the vocation of this museum: to understand the urban dynamics and their impact in nature, the equal disclosure of science, and the generation of emotions that lead to learning.

This time, the MCA presents two installations from the artist, Claudia Rodríguez: La otra cascada — The Other Waterfall — and Chapala también se-a-gota — Chapala drops…drop by drop —, both reflecting the contamination and lack of water that has affected the state of Jalisco, Mexico in the last decades.