MUSEUM OF MEXICAN HISTORY

MUSEUM OF MEXICAN HISTORY

The museum of Mexican history this one located near the site of Monterrey's foundation and inaugurated on November 30, 1994, the Museum of Mexican History is the most important historical exhibition in the north of Mexico. It is shaped by more than 1,200 pieces distributed in an area of 15 thousand square meters, which illustrate different aspects of the life in Mexico from the pre-Hispanic epoch up to the 20th century, including from small pieces of daily use of the former inhabitants up to a royal locomotive. This space possesses in addition a room for temporary exhibitions, library - video library and an audience.

THE EXTERIOR OF THE MUSEUM OF MEXICAN HISTORY.

The Museum was inaugurated on November 30, 1994, is located in the Plaza of the Four Hundred Years and thought as a new place of recreation and cultural development for the visitor, its architectural design emerges from the historical script and graphic museum. East of the Government Palace, the Macro Square museum opens in that other essential of downtown Monterrey. His white building is located on the Esplanade St. Lucia, is an imposing building, designed by the architects Oscar Bulnes and Augusto Alvarez, is both sober and imposing construction, Art Nouveau, which is accessed through a wide square, birthplace of the "Ojos de Agua de Santa Lucia", site of the founding of the city of Monterrey. Besides that you can admire the fountain in before arriving at the main entrance, also gives a good color with the trees that bloom on the sides of the building.

Outside the site can also admire three beautiful statues, which represent three different museums in the city of Monterrey. The statues are in the shape of animals and each represents a different museum.

THE INTERIOR OF THE MUSEUM OF MEXICAN HISTORY

The Museum of Mexican History has 5 rooms such as the surface of the earth, ancient Mexico, Viceroyalty, Nineteenth Century and Modern Mexico, This space also has a room for temporary exhibitions, library, video library and an auditorium.

ROOM 1. - OLD MEXICO

The room one of ancient Mexico has images and objects that are giving testimony of how every day men and women of the Ancient Mexico were going out to realize his tasks. On a market see the trade across the barter and the hierarchy of the company that was going from the chief or tlatoani, up to craftsmen and peasants with his offer of goods.

Anthropomorphic objects allow us to set the portrait of the ancient Mexicans, and personal accessories that were used as ornaments to the body, identify their religious beliefs and standards of beauty. Religion and agriculture were governed by exact schedules which we can see examples in this room and learn how the Maya made their accounts.

ROOM 2.- VICEROYALTY

Weapons and religious objects help us recreate the military and spiritual

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