The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone (Peabody Museum)

Barbara Fash has created the type of detailed and loving history of the Copan Sculpture Museum that only someone who was and remains intimately involved in its creation could accomplish. This book chronicles not only the decades of work on the part of archeologists and conservators, as well as—and importantly has a strong focus on—the local people who worked to make this museum possible, but also serves as a history of the Copan Ruinas and the discovery and preservation of this amazingly well preserved culturally and historically important site.The artwork, including Fash’s own drawings, and the photographic history of the endevour combine for a rich and wonderfully detailed recalling of the museums history and the legacy it honors.This is a one of a kind work that itself preserves the depth of Maya culture and architecture, archeological history and discovery of a Mesoamérican treasure and the work of contemporary artisans, scholars, administrators and tradesmen, bringing each into synthesis, resulting a work unmatched in its inclusion of all aspects the regions past and current history.

This is an excellent book describing in detail the wonderful Copan Sculpture Museum in Honduras, which I visited in August 2019. I highly recommend it to those readers who are interested in Mayan archeology.

Having been to Copan many times starting in 1966, I was thrilled to visit this relatively new museum in person and was very happy to learn that this book had finally been published. The Fashes have worked long and hard at Copan and the readers are rewarded; this book is almost as wonderful as seeing it in person.

Excellent information about the excavation of Copan and the building of the site museum.

Beauty

Excellent companion to the sculpture museum in Copan as a supplement to the information in the museum. Only downside is price!