Front entrance to the museum.

Original Aztec Stone of the Sun on display in the museum.

Gift shop.

The Maya Room.

Model Of Templo Mayor (Tenochtitlán).

The Palenque exhibit inside the Maya Room.

The Museo Nacional de Antropología or National Museum of Anthropology is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. It contains significant anthropological finds from the nation of Mexico such as the Aztec Calendar Stone and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli. Image File history File linksMetadata National_Museum_of_Anthropology_and_History. ... Image File history File linksMetadata National_Museum_of_Anthropology_and_History. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Aztec Aztec calendar ... File links The following pages link to this file: Aztec Aztec calendar ... Sculpture commemorating the moment when Aztecs found the sign for Tenochtitlan foundation place given by Huitzilopochtli. ... The Aztec calendar was the calendar of the Aztec people of Pre-Columbian Mexico. ... Plan of Tenochtitlan (Dr Atl) Mexico City statue commemorating the foundation of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan (pronounced ) or, alternatively, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now central Mexico. ... The Palace, Ruins of Palenque Palenque is a Maya archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 130 km south of Ciudad del Carmen (see map). ... Chapultepec (ChapoltepÄ“c = at the grasshopper hill in the Nahuatl language) is a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City with much significance in Mexican history. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) in the South of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides... Human anatomical proportions. ... The Aztec Calendar Stone, also known as the Sun Stone or Stone of the Sun is found in the National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología), Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. ... Sculpture commemorating the moment when Aztecs found the sign for Tenochtitlan foundation place given by Huitzilopochtli. ... In Aztec mythology, Xochipilli was the god of love, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, and song. ...

Architecture

Designed in 1963 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, helped by Ricardo de Robina, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares, it has an impressive architecture with exhibition halls surrounding a patio with a small pond and a vast square concrete umbrella supported by a single slender pillar around which splashes an artificial cascade. The halls are ringed by gardens, many of which contain outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibits and covers an area of 79,700 square meters. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

Exhibits

Opened in 1964, by President Adolfo López Mateos, the museum has many fascinating exhibits, such as the Aztec calendar stone, giant stone Olmec heads from the jungles of Tabasco and Veracruz, treasures recovered from the sacred Mayan well in Chicen Itza, a replica of Lord Pacal's Mayan tomb from Palenque and ethnological displays of rural Mexican life as it is still lived today. It also has a very good model of the location and layout of Tenochtitlan, which puts present-day Mexico City in perspective. For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Term of office: 1 December 1958 – 1 December 1964 Preceded by: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Succeeded by: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Date of birth: 26 May 1909 Place of birth: Atizapán de Zaragoza, Edomex Date of death: 22 September 1969 Place of death: Mexico City Profession: Lawyer First Lady: Eva... Plan of Tenochtitlan (Dr Atl) Mexico City statue commemorating the foundation of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan (pronounced ) or, alternatively, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now central Mexico. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) in the South of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...

Amenities

In the entrance hall is a gift shop that sells postcards, souvenirs, books in several languages on Mexican culture, archeology and history, and detailed guides to the museum providing full descriptions of most of the important pieces. Regular guided tours in Spanish are free, or you can buy tickets for tours in English, French or German. Every hall has at least one outstanding feature, with the Aztec and the Maya rooms being the highlights. There is a restaurant downstairs behind the hall devoted to the cultures of the north and west.

Visiting

Many tourists consider this to be the best museum in Mexico City. Allow at least four to five hours to visit, with a seven to eight hour visit being optimal. The museum is most crowded on Sundays, and if you plan to take pictures, use a camera with the ability to compensate for low light because no flash is permitted. Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) in the South of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...

External link

• Official Web Site