Guadalajara Museum of Local Lore

The Guadalajara Museum of Local Lore is located in a large two-storey stone building built in the 18th century. The museum building occupies an entire block. The facade of the building is decorated quite simply. The museum has a spacious patio with arches and small well-groomed alleys.

The exposition of the museum is located in fourteen exhibition halls. On the ground floor are exhibited archaeological artifacts relating to the history of the planet in prehistoric times. Here you can see various fossils, skeletons of mammoth, rhinoceros, saber-toothed tiger. On the second floor are exhibited paintings of the colonial period and some works of modern art.

The museum was opened as a local history museum in 1976.