Not that we were of the same state!

If you, dear reader, are reading this blog from any other part of the Mexican Republic, or even the world, we also have more interesting options for you in this list of museums around Mexico.

• Museum of The Palace of Fine Arts.

Recognized as the first art museum in Mexico, it was opened with the name of Plastic Arts Museum in 1934 as the first building devoted to exhibiting art for his contemplation. Since 1968 and after being the National Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition halls of the palace were recognized as the Museum of The Palace of Fine Arts, name that is known nowadays.

• National Museum of Anthropology

Considered one of the most important museulogical enclosures in Mexico and Latin America, the current National Museum of Anthropology (MNA), located in Mexico City, was specifically designed to shelter the most important archaeological and ethnographic collections in the country.

MNA building has 23 permanent exhibition halls, a room for temporary exhibitions and two auditoriums.

• Desert Museum

Located in the city of Saltillo in the state of Coahuila, the desert museum brings together paleontology, biology, geology, anthropology and history to understand better the ecosystem. The museum has four exhibition halls showing the main characteristics of desert: its geology, its wildlife and its flora. Also it presents Mexico’s largest dinosaur fossils  collection. Vsisitors can enjoy the museum gardens which own vegetation of the area; they can observe cactus, montagu, yuccas, agaves, among others.

• Museum of Death

The National Museum of Death, in Aguascalientes, offers a look at this fundamental aspect of Mexican culture. The museum consists of religious and art objects related to the death. The collection includes works by renowned Mexican artists as José Guadalupe Posada and Francisco Toledo and authentic colonial and prehispanic pieces.

The museum is located within the University Cultural Center of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and opened to the public in June 2007, during the celebration of the 34th anniversary of the school.

• Regional Museum of Yucatan

Regional Museum of Yucatán "Cantón Palace" was opened in December 1959.

There, it shows the most important aspects of the culture: the first settlers and their environment; the evolution of the development of complex structures such as palaces, temples and buildings; the formation of the state with a socio-political organization; rituals and business relations; Mayan worldview and sense of transcendence after death.

• Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo Museum.

Turned into museum in 1958 and located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City, Casa Azul is one of the most beautiful enclosures and, according to official data, the second most visited museum after the National Museum of Anthropology. It was home of the international mexican painter Frida Kahlo; there you can find the personal objects of the Latin American artist with the greatest projection in the world.

GONZÁLEZ KU ABRIL M.