Anthropology and History Museum

Well Curated

A beautiful old mansion with a well-curated display of artifacts and information from both the Palenque and Ek Balam excavations. A QR code link allows english speakers to learn about the artifacts di...

Well worth a visit

This is a fine museum although clearly operating on a low budget. Try the ornate elevator from 1900 if you are disabled. Good exhibitions of two of the major Mayan sites and how they were discovered...

Beautiful collection and exposition, awesome information and staff

This museum is located in Palacio Canton, one of the beautiful mansions along Paseo de Montejo avenue. I arrived there almost 1 h before they closed and they told me that I could enter without paying....

Beautiful & disappointing

Worth the 90 peso entry to see the interior of this beautiful mansion. The archeological artifacts are well displayed however everything was in Spanish so we had no explanation of what we were looking...

Interesting displays in a very pleasant converted town house

Very pleasant use of a converted town house. There wasn't a great deal of artefacts on display, but it provided interesting context to the Mayan sites around Merida