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MEXICO TOURISM BOARD PRESENTS TOY EXPO IN
THE UNITED STATES
Festival ofToys comes to the Woodlands
Children’s Museum with over 600 toys on display
Houston, TX, November 3rd,
2008–The
Mexico Tourism Board and the Woodland’s
Children’s Museum will present “Mexico: Festival of Toys”,
from November 22, 2008 to May 2009. Here,children can get learn about the
variety of toys and customs that children across the border are used to. The
traveling, bilingual exhibit created by the Papalote Museo del Niño in Mexico
City, is the first international exhibit hosted by the museum and includes more
than 600 Mexican toys from the beginning in the 1920’s and traveling
through today’s modern day toys.
The exhibit launched its U.S. tour at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.,
and then traveled to the Louisiana Children’s Museum, and will be on
display at The Woodlands Children’s Museum from November 22, 2008 to May
2009. Children will have a chance to see and play with toys and instruments
from Mexico
in this colorful and fanciful exhibit. The exhibit also explores language and
culture by including displays and books in Spanish as well as photographs of
vibrant festivals held in various regions of Mexico. The exhibit targets
children ages 2-12 and their families.
The Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) brings together the resources
of federal and state governments, municipalities and private companies to
promote Mexico’s
tourism attractions and destinations internationally. Created in 1999, the
MTB is Mexico’s tourism promotion agency,
and its participants include members of both the
private and public sectors. The MTB has offices
throughout North America,
Europe, Japan
and Latin America.
For more information on destinations and online trip bookings please go towww.visitmexico.com.
FOR PRESS ONLY: For additional ideas, help with a
story or general travel and tourism information about Mexico, please
contact the MTB’s U.S. Press Room directly at 1-800-929-4555,
by e-mail at northamericanpress@visitmexico.com
or visit our press Web site at www.visitmexicopress.com
