Museum Honors Missing People in Mexico With an Exhibit of Their Shoes

A museum in Mexico City is hanging the shoes of missing persons in an exhibit as a gesture to the kidnapping crisis that has plagued the country in recent years.

People look at footprints as shoes of relatives of missing people with messages printed on their soles hang from the roof of the "Casa de la Memoria Indomita" museum during the opening of the "Huellas de La Memoria" (Memory Tracks) exhibition in Mexico City on May 9, 2016. YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images

A museum in Mexico City is hanging the shoes of missing persons in an exhibit as a gesture to the kidnapping crisis that has plagued the country in recent years. 

Tens of thousands are kidnapped in Mexico every year, and in 2014 a group of 43 college students associated with political activism went missing all at once, setting off protests across the country. 

“These shoes symbolize the fight for the truth and the denunciation against the state-sponsored crime that are disappearances,” Jorge Galvez, director of the Museum of Untamed Memory, told ABC News.

The Mexican police have been accused of being involved in the kidnapping of the 43 students.