If your adrenaline junkie soul reckons museum ambling is a bore, this one might spark your interest for it could literally keep you on your toes. Spread across an area of more than seven hectares, with multiple exhibition halls, National Museum of Anthropology could easily burn your whole day. But if you intend to do a quick lap, spare a couple of hours like we did.
The museum’s collection is insanely vast. So vast that we couldn’t believe there are more artifacts distributed to other museums in Mexico and overseas. We left the museum awestruck, and infatuated with Mesoamérica.
How’s that for a quickie virtual tour? If you’re visiting the country, start your trip here for a crash course in Mexico’s cultural history. Museum is open from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Tuesday to Sunday. Admission fee is 51 Mexican pesos. To get there, simply take the metro. Nearest station is Auditorio.
wow! these are very interesting pieces of Mexican history. hope we have stuff like these here. 🙂
It’s like a historical place in mexico !
glad to see your “little doll-angel” being extremely exposed to various interesting cultures and lifestyles. i’m sure she has developed her own appreciation of things particularly from this mexican museum and all others she experienced with you and her daddy.
luna’s so blessed!
thanks for the tour inside, btw!
buti pwede magkodakan inside unlike other museums where even no-flash photography is prohibited.
That’s what I’m hoping for Doc Gelo, for her to appreciate different cultures 🙂 And yeah, I’m glad photography’s allowed inside.
I’ve always been fascinated with early civilizations particularly that of the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs. Isa sa mga dream ko kasi dati ang maging archeologists. And talagang pinapanood ko sila pag meron sa National Geo. Sana makapunta rin ako dyan in the future.
Ooooh me too Joan! I wanted to become an archaeologist when I was a kid. Tsk. I still wanna, actually.
interesting mexican history! I hope to see the museum too someday! 🙂
wow! nakahawak na si Luna ng monolithic olmec head! im not into museums too but when i visited our National Museum… napahanga ako. i should visit more. even the ones from other country. the slippers indeed looks like the ones of the ivatans.
Wow, that’s great you can take photos in museum in Mexico, here in USA some museums are not allowed to take photos.I like to visit museums.
Dong, I’d love to revisit National Museum!
I love Museums Gaye and this one looks really really worth visiting! 🙂 inggit mode si OLAN! Hehehe. 🙂
Astig ung Olmec head. Sa dami ng museum dito sa New York isa pa lang napuntahan ko, may bayad kasi.:/ Buti sa Washington naka-3 museum kahit pano.
Now this is a travel blogging. I’m officially inggit! But yeah I hope to visit the museum one day. Would they allow a noisy backpacker inside? lol!
I hope that I can have a chance to go to this museum. I just love history and seeing artifacts make me imagine how people lived back then. The Rings for a Mesoamerican Ball Game is a bit creepy. Can’t imagine how a team leader is beheaded! o__O
the mesoamerican ball game blood fest would have been better than ufc if it still existed today. nice photos 🙂
Hi,
very nice post.
That was a really interesting post.
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