Amparo Museum

The Amparo Museum is Mexico’s largest historical museum. The Amparo Museum contains a temporary and permanent collection. The permanent collection of the museum has art objects that were created in the colonial, pre-Hispanic periods of the development of Mexico. It was founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Amparo Foundation. The museum is housed in two buildings that were built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Previously, there was a hospital in this building. Later there was a women's college in this place.

The Amparo Museum contains eleven rooms. Here you can see steles, altars, dishes used by various Mexican tribes. The oldest of the exhibits were created in the 2500th millennium BC. The halls of the Amparo Museum contain furniture, sculptures made of ivory, gold and silver products, as well as oil paintings. Various conferences and seminars are often held in the museum.