Museo Nacional de Arte

The exhibition México Postal. Mensajes de la Revolución focused on the display of stamps and postcards elaborated during the revolutionary period, showing the images captured in them and their usage. At that moment, the first centenary of the Mexican independence was celebrated and, at the same time, a movement to overthrow Porfirio Diaz’s regime began. As a result, the philately production, by being a tool and object of a federal service such as the postal mail, received the influences of those social moments. When this event, that divided the social and politic history of the country, finished, an ideology of a new order that permeated all areas of institutional areas was created. Thanks to the study of stamps, it was possible to track the necessity of building an identity as a nation and that brought changes in fields like education, ways of production, and social welfare postulated by a government that sought progress and prosperity. In addition, it was possible to identify, inside the philately, the periods in which the revolutionary ideals, framed by the celebrations of past years, were glorified, which turned the stamps into a witness of the time and space in which they were produced, including the artistic dimension that generated them.