National Museum of Anthropology - Mexico's state museum in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. The museum has a unique collection of artifacts, archaeological artifacts that were found on Mexican soil.

The museum was founded in 1825. The building where it is today, was built in 1963 by the famous Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez. 23 exhibition halls are arranged in such a way that surround a courtyard with a pond and a so-called "umbrella" - a column of concrete, surrounded by an artificial waterfall. Around the museum there are gardens, where temporary exhibitions are held. They tend to talk about the art and culture of other countries, such as Persia, Egypt, Greece and, of course, Spain.

The total area of ​​the museum - about 8 hectares. On its territory located in the world's richest collection of art culture of the Maya, Aztec, Olmec, Toltec, Mixtec and other peoples of ancient Mexico. There is a large ethnographic exhibition, tells the story of contemporary folk country.

The museum is full of world-famous exhibits. At the entrance visitors seven meter meets the head of Tlaloc - god of rain, discovered in Mexico City in 1940. It contains the stone of the sun, called the Aztec calendar yet, a huge stone heads of the people of the Olmec and Mayan treasures of gold. There are exhibits and terrible. In the hall of the Aztec figure of a jaguar resting with sacrificial bowl, which pinned the heart of sacrifice. Or armor made of entirely removed and tanned human skin.