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Views: 1998 | November 12, 2014
The photo exhibition of Mileniusz Spanowicz promoted and organized by WCS, has toured several exhibition halls, starting with the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF), which in the "Long Night of Museums" attracted more than 13,000 visitors. The artistic quality and scientific value of the photographs on wildlife in northern La Paz, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, makes them ambassadors of Bolivia’s natural heritage.
The photographic exhibition in the Jach'a Qathu cable car station, near the main avenue in El Alto, was a symbolic stop of an extraordinary journey that begins at the Central Station and though an aerial experience culminates in the city of El Alto. The impression is even stronger if the trip is made in one of the booths that has been covered with photographs of iconic Andean fauna of Bolivia: the Andean condor, the alkamari, a falcon that symbolizes good luck, and the taruka, a mythical Andean deer. A monkey frog, posing on a patujú flower of the same color as the cable car line, represented the Amazonian region of La Paz. Coinciding with the photo exhibition, the Jach'a Qathu station was the site where President Evo Morales Ayma inaugurated the Red Line.
For citizens of El Alto, there was another chance to visit this photographic exhibition at the Art Museum "Antonio Paredes Candia", that opened on the 23rd of September in the presence of officials of the Municipal Government of El Alto and the Departmental government of La Paz. In order to reach children, the museum carried out educational activities with students from elementary schools. WCS gave talks explaining the content and messages associated with the photographs.
The exhibitions held at the city of El Alto were jointly organized by the Government of the Department of La Paz, the Commission of Mother Earth and Environment of the Legislative Assembly of La Paz, the Municipality of El Alto, the National Program Biocultura-COSUDE and WCS.