Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology guided tour

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Place: Mexico City

Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes

Language: English, Spanish

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Discover anthropological artifacts from Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage
Admire the "Sun Stone", also known as the Aztec calendar
Learn more about the cultures that populated the country centuries ago

What to expect

The National Museum of Anthropology is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec calendar stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli statue.

The museum is the synthesis of an ideological, scientific, and political feat. The museum’s collections include the Stone of the Sun, giant stone heads of the Olmec civilization that were found in the jungles of Tabasco and Veracruz, and treasures recovered from the Mayan civilization, at the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, among others.

It also has a model of the location and layout of the former Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, the site of which is now occupied by the central area of modern-day Mexico City. The permanent exhibitions on the ground floor cover all pre-Columbian civilizations located on the current territory of Mexico as well as in former Mexican territory in what is today the southwestern United States.