National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is a wide-open natural park and has a great history, because it was the place where Aztec emperors spent time. The museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec calendar stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli statue. The museum received 3,700,000 visitors in 2024, making it the most-visited museum in Mexico. Architecture This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . ( November 2018 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Central Courtyard Umbrella Designed in 1964 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez , Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca . As the authors mentioned in "B. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City" which is part of "Modern Architecture in Latin America" book, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez is a well-known architect, who. History This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . ( November 2018 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Top View of the Stone of Tizoc . The stone is currently in the National Museum of Anthropology. At the end of the 18th century, by order of the viceroy of Bucareli, the items that formed part of the collection by Lorenzo Boturini — including the sculptures of Coatlicue and the Sun.