Museo Antropologico

The "Museo Antropologico" is an overwhelming architectural space. It basically showcases the whole history of Mexico, through beautiful precolombian objects. We spent 7 hours and ended up rushing to see it all.


"El Paraguas" (The umbrella), a gorgeous column-fountain at the entrance.




A skull decorated with mozaics (Take that, Damien Hirst!)


The first anatomy lesson!


One of the impressive heads from the Olmec culture. These were placed at the entrance of villages as protection and they weight around 8 tons!


It's almost like they saw Death as being back in the womb...


"The Aztec calendar" is the most important piece in the Museum, which was recently found to be a sacrificial stone. It was carved in one block of stone and never finished because it cracked at the back.