Global Courant
SAN PEDRO SULA.
This Saturday the death of the outstanding director of the Museum of Anthropology and History of San Pedro Sula, Teresa de Pastor, was confirmed.
As confirmed by those close to this newspaper, Teresa de Pastor died after undergoing a open heart surgery in mexicocountry to which he traveled since last week.
Maria Teresa de Maria Campos Castelló was born in Mexico City on May 25, 1945. Campos Castelló was a doctor in history, anthropologist, museographer, writer and analyst.
In Honduras, she studied Honduran rural housing, was one of the scholars of the Currusté archaeological vestige and an activist for the reactivation of the Venus de Currusté.
She was married to Dr. Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle and was the mother of three children, including Rodolfo Pastor de Maria y Camposcurrent Minister of the Presidency of Honduras.
PROTECTOR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
In an interview given in January 2023 to Diario LA PRENSA, Teresa Campos expressed: “The most valuable thing I have achieved in life is my three children and my seven grandchildren. Unexpectedly, the Museum of Anthropology and History of San Pedro Sula turned out to be one more tender”.
”Participating from the beginning was a great privilege. With enthusiasm I dedicated myself to designing the distribution of the different spaces, the furniture and the museography. The Francisco Morazán school had to be conditioned to transform it into a museum,” Campos said at the time.
Teresa Campos is one of the founders of the Museum of Anthropology and History, whose inauguration took place on January 27, 1994. According to what she said, in said interview, it took them three years to restore the building, and she was the main person in charge of this enormous task. . Of the collection, most of the pieces were donated by Daisy Fasquelle, Henry Fransen and Armando Bonilla.
WORKS AT THE SERVICE OF CULTURE
As for his works, he has done a great deal since 1964 on teaching, investigations, volunteering, sculptures and conferences in the USA, Mexico and Honduras.
For example, in 1969 he spent three months in the Sierra Tarahumara conducting research on the daily life of indigenous women.
In 1972, she served as a volunteer for the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, conducting interviews for an investigation into the religiosity of peasants in western Honduras; already in 1976 she made the bust of don Pedro Bosch Gimpera, which is located in the Unam gardens in the capital of Mexico.
Between 1988 and 1989, he gave lectures on traditional medicine and rural nutrition in Mexico and the United States (Philadelphia University, Haverford College, and the New York Public Library).
Of the most recent, in 2004 he participated in an exchange with the Banneker Douglas Museum in Annapolis, USA, organized by IPAM (International Partnership Among Museums) which depends on the American Association of Museums (AAM).
And the list would become endless for the exemplary lady, but one of the contributions that the industrial capital always has in mind is its contribution to the most important artistic public space located in the heart of the city, the Museum of Anthropology and History of San Pedro Sula.
The Museum of Anthropology and History is one of the most representative sites of San Pedro Sula.
