Museum Garden Restaurant El Hibiscus

We are pleased to offer you: A Museum with a collection of Mayan Native Contemporaneous Customes, from the different ethnics that Guatemala has; these Customes are made in three types of Looms: Waist, Foot, and Ribbon looms. Beautiful interpretative pathways with exotic plants. ·A handcraft store, where you will find unique gifts made by Mayan hands. A restaurant where you can taste authentic Guatemalan dishes, snacks, cold and hot drinks, beers, wine, spirits. History: Hibiscus was founded by Eric Voelin (French born) and Sandra Acevedo de Voelin (Guatemalan born). They meet in 1986 in Lyon. France on her vacation, and are married since 1989. They bought 13 acres from Madame Dolores de Acevedo, Sandra’s mother, and started the project in 1999 with the restaurant and the garden. Now, they started with the Museum of Mayan Native Customes. They have designated this place as an Ecological Reserve, since they are decided to protect the Flora and Fauna. Welcome to our country, we wish you a very pleasant stay in Izabal, and of course, at the Hibiscus Project.

Address: Eric Voelin / Sandra de Voelin Km. 284 Carretera al Atlántico Puerto Barrios, Izabal.Guatemala, Central AméricaP.O. Box 025 e-mail: Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla website: www.hibiscusprojectizabal.com Phone: 502 - 55149525 / 502 - 52940397 / 502 – 52068890 From Monday to Saturday 8 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Donation $ US 5.00 Note: A portion of your donation, helps to the research of this rich textile Mayan culture.

Hibiscus Project

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This is a country for those who do not only “make tourism”, but rather wish to live unequalled experiences, such as having learned that one of the most beautiful, and interesting roles was played by one people: the MAYA. Guatemala is multicultural, Multilanguage and multiethnic. Guatemala has many regions to visit that are really beautiful, and interesting, you are visiting one of these regions called: Izabal. A Different Caribbean: In this area of Guatemala you will find one of the most highly – biodiversity of the world. It has natural reserves, Mayan archeological sites such as Quiriguá a Mayan site that has been declared by UNESCO as “Patrimony of Humanity”. It also has the sea, the Rio Dulce River and Lake Izabal. Here, there is also a unique Ecological Restaurant, called “Hibiscus”, that, on plus of the exquisite food that serves, offers you a decoration with a collection of Native Custome in a Museum with more than 40 native outfits from men and women, and the symbology of their designs, unique in Guatemala. Also you can walk through their eco trail, and experience the Tropical Rainforest, it has 13 acres that are protected by their owners Eric and Sandra Voelin, they invite you, to take advantage of this opportunity for visiting the Mayan Museum of Garments. (www.hibiscusprojectizabal.com) Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla

MUSEUM OF MAYAN CONTEMPORARY CUSTOMES

El Hibiscus Project www.hibiscusprojectizabal.com e-mail: Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla Km. 284 Puerto Barrios, IzabalGuatemala Central América History of Garments In the precolumbian period the Mayan used for their ceremonial Customes: Quetzal feathers, Shells, jade, jewerely, jaguar skin, sculpted bones anple turban or hairdo, but very few textiles. All was focused in their religion through mythological animals or sacred elements, such as plants: cocoa… astronomical symbol: sun, moon… After the conquest, the spaniards brought new fibers, new fabric techniques, that transformed the Mayan clothing, and through the new Christian religion a mixture of cultures was created, having as a result the present day garments. At the beginning they were plain, but they were extremely changed since 1970. Before that date, each important town from the highlands of Guatemala had their own custome suit, that helped recognize each ethny; we actually arrived to see an every day custome, full of richness never seen before. The high price of a custome suit, the chemical coloring, the cultural loss, the religious changes, the development of communications, the import of Asian products, and the tourism taste adjustment, are all reasons that make us live a color and design explotion that complicate the acknowledgement of the origin of each town. We can actually observe an outerlimited creativity, but also a loss of cultural identification of some towns. Custome Description These customes are weaving in 3 types of looms: Waist, foot, and ribbon looms. Detail of items they use with the Mayan names.