You think getting into a Museum of Anthropology is a useless thing? Perhaps, you have not had a chance to get into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. What you find inside that special place (considered, for its museological conception, one of the best museums in the world), it came back to sunlight during archaeological excavations citizens. Looking at the “Athlete” (a stone sculpture, culture Olmeca), admiring “Mother and Son” (small terracotta figures of the pre-classical period), or with stops to look at the “Mask” (decorated with turquoise mosaic shells), surely you will be happy to have spent your money to get into those rooms that – in contact with the ground – seem to continue the story of a never ending story. http://www.visitmexico.com/en/
Into the entry hall, you have full vision of the human races and the American peoples, while in the next room you can admire the creations of the Mesoamerican culture: pottery and ornaments, but also working tools and weapons. When you will enter in the “original room”, you may have the perception of being back home, back in time, looking carefully and astonishment the skeleton of a mammoth and stone weapons, dumb objects, which tell old stories of 10,000 years. The pre-classical room is dedicated to the central plateau findings (do not forget to take pictures – but you will need to ask for the authorization – the “vessel of the acrobat” and clay figures that come from Tlatilco. http://www.hoteltravel.com/mexico/mexico_city/tourist-information-offices-in-mexico-city.htm
Teotihuacan in the room, you will have before your eyes a huge collection of ceramics, but also the wonderful reproduction of a wall painting (the Paradise of Tlaloc). The giant atlas of Tula temple, you can see it in the “Toltec” room. Finally, you arrive at the museum that collects the unconditional admiration of all visitors: you are arrived in the Mexica room, where more than 100 exhibits tell you about the life of an off time, with colors still seem to emit a light of their life. Among those objects, the calendar of the Aztecs (the Sun Stone), occupies the place of honor: 24 tons in weight and 3.35 meters in diameter. I will stay to watch this wonder, while you will be able to continue your museum visit, in the Oaxaca area and in the Maya, but you’ll also have the chance to climb to the upper floor of the museum, entering the ethnographic section. http://www.visitmexico.com/en/anthropology-museum-in-mexico-city
