Mayan World Museum of Mérida

5 Rachel M Garza - 7 months ago

Easy to walk with plaques to explain what you are looking at. I had a wheel chair the museum supplied for free. The exhibits are awesome. You can take photos as long as you don't use flash. Take your time and enjoy it's magic!

5 mayryanna Shakti - 8 months ago

Great, specialized museum with a variety of artifacts from all over the Mayan empire. Enjoyed that most of the exhibit descriptions included English too! We also liked that there was a wide perspective of Mayan culture presented - from the explanations about the language, calendar and record keeping to stories and literature written about the culture throughout history, as well as textiles, pottery, jewelry and other artifacts to diagrams and dioramas that helped to explain the culture. We are excited to visit more of the archeological sites in the Yucatan now with all of the new information we gained here!

5 Jaime Ortega - 8 months ago

Fantastic place to spend some cool time ! Great statues, architecture, artwork, jewelry etc from the Maya culture. Friendly staff educated me on the types of gods and their place in the Maya/Aztec religious hierarchy. A must see if in Merida highly recommend!

5 Richard M - 8 months ago

Excellent educational experience for myself and family. Beautifully laid out displays with detailed descriptions in Spanish, English and Mayan for most of the museum.

There were some interactive screens which were fun for the kids as well.

Quiet environment, low lighting to keep the items on display from deterioration. Cool,
Comfortable temperature inside.

5 Paolo Aiello - 7 months ago

Good museum! It has a lot of explanatory boards and it's a joy to go around reading everything. It gives you a really good explanation about the Mayan culture. Highly recommended before going to visit archeological sites that don't have too much explanations inside.

3 Johnny - a month ago

Quite a disappointment. Campeche Maya museum is half the size but very well done. I’m a big museum goer and I had high expectations with such a big building and I heard it was a referent for Maya history. The main Maya permanent exposition it’s quite confusing, you will begin learning about nowadays Maya, then you’ll learn about how Christianity transformed them, then jump to their calendar, with some disconnected videos along the way. Most items exposed don’t have any tag whatsoever, you don’t know what they are, their age or where do they come from. To finish up and eerie fixation repeated again and again through the museum with the Spanish conquest and murder of the Maya.

3 Nikita Petrov - 7 months ago

Meh. Strange organisation of exhibition, starting from modern days. Museum is not big at all, even the building is big and modern. Price for that is huge - 150 pesos. In CDMX in Museo Nacional de Antropologia it costs only 80 pesos for much better exhibition