Felipe Solís Olguín

Felipe R. Solís Olguín (18 December 1944 – 23 April 2009) was a Mexican archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian as well as curator and Director of the National Anthropology Museum from 2000 until his death on April 23, 2009.

Solís became a professor at the Postgraduate Mesoamerican Studies program at the Philosophy and Literature Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1997 and served on Academic Council of the program from 1998. He also taught at the National School of Professional Studies in Acatlan and at the National School of Anthropology and History and the National School of Restoration, Conservation and Museography. Solís was a guest lecturer at the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain and at the Universidad de Rancagua in Chile. However authorities revealed that the cause of death was complications from a pre-existing cardiac condition, unrelated to swine flu. He had escorted U.S. President Barack Obama on a tour of the museum a week before his death.

Publications During his career, he published almost 200 articles and authored or co-authored about 30 books.

Representative books Human Body, Human Spirit: A Portrait of Ancient Mexico, 1993 One Hundred Masterpieces of Mexican Art: The Pre-Hispanic Period, 1998 Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, 1998 National Museum of Anthropology, 1999 Los senorios de la costa del Golfo, 2000 Tepeyac : estudios historicos, 2000 El Museo Nacional en el imaginario mexicano, 2001 Aztecs, 2002 Art Treasures of Ancient Mexico:Journey to the Land of the Gods, 2002 Hernán Cortés y la conquista de México, 2003 The Aztec Empire, 2004 Mexica: National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico, 2004 The Aztec Calendar and Other Solar Monuments, 2004 Cholula: The Great Pyramid, 2006 Mexica : bosquejos de la vida del pueblo, 2008