The National Museum of Anthropology is one of the most famous in Mexico, located on the territory of the Chapultepec amusement park in Mexico City. Created in 1790, the museum was called the Museum of Natural History. Over time, it was divided into the National Museum of Anthropology, with exhibits from the pre-Columbian period, and the National Historical Museum, with exhibits from the period from the Spanish conquest to the present day.
The museum complex consists of 23 exhibition halls arranged around a patio with a decorative pond and an artificial waterfall in the middle. The museum's collections are divided into an archaeological part on the first floor and an ethnographic part on the second.
The “pearl” of the Anthropology Museum is the Aztec calendar “The Stone of the Sun”. A favorite place for a photo to remember visiting the museum was a stone statue of the rain god Tlaloc, 7 meters high and weighing 167 tons, found in the fortieth year of the last century and installed near the museum.