CDHM The Miniature Way
May 2011, Issue 16
Dollhouse Tourism, Mexico
Page 82

Most replicas were constructed by Spanish technicians in the Tenerife Islands and shipped to Cozumel. Miniatures of Mayan ruins, including several buildings at Chichen Itza, were meticulously designed on a 1/25 scale.

Other visual standouts include cityscapes of Mexico City - the Paseo de la Reforma, the Zocalo, the Palace of Fine Arts and more - and a reproduction complete with waterways of Cozumel as it appeared during the 1950s. Miniature human figures, vehicles, trees, street signs and other accent figures enhance the reality factor. Attention to detail is so precise in a scale-model reproduction of Guadalajara that a four-car traffic accident is portrayed between the city's cathedral and the adjacent Degollado Theatre.

The small museum merits attention, too. Working in collaboration with Mexico City's Museum of Popular Art, Discover Mexico organizers present exquisite pieces (originals, not replicas) from throughout the nation - among them two "trees of life" created by renowned artist Tiburico Soteno and his family in Metepec, Mexico; a glass pineapple from