Carlos Ramirez Sandoval (4 November 1939 – 29 January 2016) was a Mexican museum director and curator. He was born in Morelia in the state of

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...

, Mexico. He studied at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM) as well as the

San Carlos Academy The Academy of San Carlos ( es, Academia de San Carlos) is located at 22 Academia Street in just northeast of the main plaza of Mexico City. It was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1781 as th ...

(now known as the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas). He later obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He was part of Mexican cultural activities from the 1960s as a museographer, curator, administrator, teacher, writer and communicator among other positions. His major projects included installing some of the first exhibition galleries in the Academy of San Carlos, the overall plan and museography of the Museum of Technology of the Federal Electricity Commission (Comision Federal de Electricidad, C.F.E) in Mexico City of which he was the first director, setting up the "Coloquio de Invierno" along with Victor Flores Olea and Javier Wimer (among others), as well as bringing together the group of artists who collaborated on the 'Espacio Escultorico' at the UNAM. He directed several museums and cultural centres including the defunct National Education Library, the Museum of Technology, and the Trotsky Museum which he helped revive and restore. Following a prolonged battle with Parkinson's disease, Dr. Ramirez Sandoval died in Mexico City on 29 January 2016.

References

*'Proyecto para la Biblioteca Nacional de Educacion'. Mexico: SNTE, 1997. *Leon Trotsky Museum Web Page: http://www.museocasadeleontrotsky.blogspot.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramirez, Carlos Exhibition designers Museologists Mexican curators 20th-century Mexican educators 21st-century Mexican educators Mexican male writers People from Morelia Writers from Michoacán University of Paris alumni 1939 births 2016 deaths National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni