Mérida's Museum of Anthropology
Located in Paseo Montejo, a wide elegant avenue of fine houses that could almost compete with the Champs-Elysee in Paris in grandeur and style, the Museum of Anthropology and History houses some of the finest examples of Maya finds from Chichén-Itzá and other important Ancient Sites in the Yucatán Peninsular. It has many artifacts from Pre-Columbian times and the Museum itself is a piece of History having been built by General Francisco Cantón, Governor of the Yucatán, who created this fine example of a French Baroque home - one of many beautiful homes that were built at the height of the Henequén (sisal) boom in Mérida. See Haciendas for more about the manufacture of sisal and the Grand Mansions in the countryside around Mérida that you can visit.
The Museum was inaugurated in December 1959 is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 8am to 8pm
and on Sundays from 8am to 2pm.
