The Museum of Dzibilchaltun Yucatan Mexico

The archaeological site at Dzibilchaltun, 20 kilometers from the city of Merida, has a small museum whose aim is to give the visitor a general idea of Mayan culture down through history.

This is actually quite ambitious if we take into account the innumerable vestiges left by the Mayan peoples who inhabited the entire Yucatán peninsula during the Mesoamerican period, the transformation and mixture of that legacy during the conquest and colonization, and the way in which they were integrated as a culture and social group into the Mexican nation from the time of independence from Spain until today.

However, the museographical discourse on display in its rooms somehow managed to establish a thread that runs through it all, carrying us through different facets of the Mayas’ presence in the peninsula and identifying for us different substantive moments in their history there.

The permanent exhibition, which covers the pre-Hispanic era to the twentieth century, is made up of archaeological, historical and ethnographic materials, objects for use in daily life and rituals, like ceramics, carved stone, stelae, civic and religious sculptures, clothing and textiles.

more info about Dzibilchaltun museum:
http://www.revistascisan.unam.mx/Voices/pdfs/8524.pdf

To review or learn about the history of Yucatan follow this link:
https://www.academia.edu/14694434/Breve_historia_de_Yucat%C3%A1n_1492-2015_con_fechas_y_katunes_del_Calendario_Maya_correspondientes

and visit my blog about the Maya calendar and Culture.
http://calendario-cultura-maya.blogspot.mx/
In this blog I share relevant information on this subject and important events taking place in Yucatan.

You can download my researchs at:
https://independent.academia.edu/MendozaRaul