Hotel Casa Santo Domingo.

All the polychrome Maya vases in the new museum of Maya art in Antigua, Guatemala are now available in rollout photographs by Nicholas Hellmuth.

The FLAAR Photo Archive has been working for over three decades to preserve a photographic record of the pre-Columbian national patrimony of Guatemala. We have photographed considerable portions of the immense collection of the Museo Popol Vuh. Thus it is only natural that the FLAAR Photo Archive would wish to include the Maya vases in the new museum in Antigua, Guatemala.

Andrea and Nicholas spent eight days as guest of the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo over the Christmas holidays. During this time they photographed the hotel inside and outside as well as the Maya vases. All the vases were rolled out digitally. Samples will be presented over the next several months.

This museum also includes a good selection of Teotihuacan-related art of Tiquisate.

The hotel itself is pictured on www.maya-art-books.org in the growing section on hotels of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Mexico.

This museum is situated within the ruins of the Spanish colonial monestery of Santo Domingo.

This entire Spanish colonial ruin has been excavated and partially restored as the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo. The resulting hotel is now the largest and best hotel in Antigua.

We recommend you visit the two museums in this hotel, the archaelogy museum and also the museum of Spanish colonial art. The museum of colonial artis pictured on www.maya-art-books.org

Both museums are open to the public. Admission is 10 quetzales, just over a dollar.