Sacrifices in Precarious Times: From Moche Culture to the Current Climate Crisis

The guided tour is in Spanish!

Elena Ritschard presents the new experimental showcase in the Open Storage “Sacrifice in Precarious Times: From Moche Culture to the Current Climate Crisis”.

Around 1,500 years ago, the Moche culture along the arid northern coast of Peru performed human sacrifices to mitigate climatic and ecological disasters caused by severe El Niño events. The precarious living conditions in consequence of El Niño have shaped societal structures and affected communities from Moche times until now. What can we learn from this past and our present to envision a better future?

This showcase is part of the TAKING CARE Project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Meeting point: Galleries of Marvel