The important work is on literacy, education, key cultural monuments and themes, and serving as a forum for the promotion of high scientific standards.
It is still an active excavation, but it is also an art museum, an anthropology museum, a research center, a recreation center, a theater, a nationalist monument and a theme park.
The central feature of the monument depicts the theme of a young man called from civil life to serve his nation in a time of need and it transforms the theme into a contemporary allegory.
Many of the recent monuments on this theme in Berlin and Vienna have a powerful resonance.
It takes some work to miss this Mexican-themed monument to kitsch that was started 53 years ago as a pink-painted beer shack by a South Carolina entrepreneur named Alan Schafer.
Last month, Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, delivered a speech at Gallier Hall, which served as City Hall for more than a century, on the city's removal of four Confederate-themed monuments.
The image was clearly intended to reinforce the human-rights theme of the monument, but in the twenty-first century it's inescapably offensive.
But there was no socialist plot: The Blue Room tree's theme last year was monuments, and the ornaments were put together by civic groups all over the country.
Rather than the broad pastiche that characterizes, say, Disneyland, the mini-monuments of Japan's cultural theme parks are faithful reproductions executed with stunning accuracy.
This year's theme is commemorative monuments.
