Universum (UNAM) Universum (UNAM) Universum (full name Universum, el Museo de las Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) which translates to Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is Mexico’s primary museum dedicated to promoting science and technology to the public as well as support the university’s science missions. It was opened in 1992 at the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Today it has thirteen halls divided by theme dedicated to various permanent exhibitions. It has worked with outside public and private entities to develop both permanent and temporary exhibitions and has worked to develop other
Xavier Cortés Rocha of the CONACULTA, as well as president of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectos. He is emeritus professor of the College of Architecture of the UNAM. Xavier Cortés Rocha Xavier Cortés Rocha is a Mexican architect and urban planner. He was also rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) for a short time. He was born in Tampico. Cortés graduated in architecture and later in urban planning at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the UNAM. He continued his studies in Paris. After 1968 he taught at the UNAM. In 1999 he became Secretary General of the UNAM, and