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Expected to break record 3 million people with the Ashes and Snow

Nomad Museum assistance Ashes and Snow in the last 2 days has been higher than expectations and we believe that today, and the rest of this week will be even greater and continue with the trend of visitors per hour to this time (average 14 thousand people), this Sunday we will reach 3 million visitors. "

In this museum is the international exhibition Ashes and Snow, the Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert, which was open to the public on January 19 earlier in the Zocalo, in Mexico City, which will close on April 27 next, said a source of the event.

He added that until Saturday 15, the sample had been visited by two million people and that the museum will be open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The roving Nomad Museum, which displays the communion between man and animal broke daily attendance record, with Sunday 16 March 95 thousand 637 people.

The museum is unique in its kind in the world, bamboo structure on an area of 6 square meters and a height of 16 meters, designed by Colombian architect Simon Velez, the assembly again in the same places as the capital's Zocalo andalusia most important cultural and pluralistic country.

Visitors also can see bodies of water along the main corridors (this is an area of 280 meters in total).

The exhibition is composed of 53 large-scale photographs and three 35 mm films. Colbert addressed in these works the natural interaction between man and the animal world and is a sign that the artist was born in Toronto, Canada, wanted to exhibit in Mexico City and particularly in the Zocalo, regarded internationally as an exceptional for artistic and cultural expression.

Captured more than 40 trips to India, Egypt, Burma, Tonga, Sri Lanka, Namibia and Kenya, among others, in their photographs, Colbert reflects the definition of animals: Masterpieces of Nature Vivas.

In a bamboo 5 thousand 130 square meters, with curtains made of tea bags brought from Sri Lanka, which was installed in the main square of the country, you can see the exhibition "Ashes and Snow" (Ashes and Snow).

Here are exhibited in two galleries and three theaters, 53 medium-size photographs of 3.5 and 2.5 meters by three films of the art photographer, filmmaker and novelist letters of Canadian origin, who created this museum to present Nomad his art,

This exhibition contains a dream that was carried out over 17 years of trips and expeditions in countries such as Egypt, Burma and Ethiopia, "said the artist, who during their tours of other nations have sought to photograph and film the interactions between man and nature.

The material suggests that it may be possible brotherly coexistence. Therefore, Colbert decided to make this relationship, but obviously invisible, the protagonist of his images and this was evident among those visiting the exhibition.

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