Mexican “Day of the Dead” Festival

On Día de los Muertos, the souls of the dead return to Mexico and celebrate a colorful festival with the living. The graves are decorated, house altars are erected, good food is prepared, colorful parades with loud music and dancing people in skeleton costumes take place.

Program in the museum

1 to 4:30 pm
Music and Dances
with the Mariachi Dos Aguilas and ¡Baila Méxiko!

1:15, 2 and 2:30 pm (30 min. each)
Ofrenda
Short guided tours with Dietmar Neitzke
The ofrenda is a table of gifts that families arrange in their homes for their deceased loved ones. Flowers, candles, pictures of saints, crosses, sugar skulls and photos decorate it. Things that the deceased liked during their lifetime are important: Chocolate, coffee or tequila, cigarettes and sometimes even fast food. Our ofrenda is designed by Guadalupe Bazan-Meyer.
The guided tour at 1:15 pm is in Spanish, the other two are in German.

1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 pm (45 min. each)
Decorate Sugar Skulls
Workshops with Dr. Daniela Biermann and Bettina Ulrich
The colorfully decorated skulls should not be missing at any ofrenda.
The workshop at 1.30 p.m. is for adults, the other two for children aged 8 and over.
€ 8,- incl. material
Registration until 25 October: Tel. 0711.2022-444, anmeldung@lindenmuseum.de

2 – 4:30 pm
Tagetes, Borlas and La Catrina
Open children’s program with Zeina Elcheikh, Gudrun König, Stephan Papadopoulos, Mike Schattschneider and Dr. Birgit Wüller
We do handicrafts: Tagetes are orange flowers that decorate graves and the ofrenda and serve as signposts for the dead. Borlas are colorful pom-poms used to embellish bags, clothing or key rings. We dress the skeleton lady La Catrina magnificently as a paper collage. She can also be used as an albanico (fan).