The National Museum of Anthropology is the largest and most impressive of the country and definitely one of the most important of its kind in the world.

It gathers thousands of years of History ranging from the peopling of the Americas to the last period of the Mesoamerican world that testifies to the arrival of the Spaniards.

Depositary of the pre-Hispanic past and the ethnographic present of Mexico, it exhibits and protects the heritage of the archaeological cultures and the legacy of the different ethnic groups of the country.

   

The exceptional buiding that houses the Museum was designed by the Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and its was inaugurated in 1964.