Museums

Explore Merida's Art and Culture

Casa Manzanero

Casa Manzanero is the first official museum that pays tribute to the greatest artist Yucatan has ever produced: Maestro Armando Manzanero. Just a few meters from Paseo Montejo Avenue, you'll find the shopping plaza Paseo 60.

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Quinta Montes de Molina

La Quinta Montes Molina, formerly known as Villa Beatriz, is a representative building from the Porfiriato era, featuring eclectic architecture with a neoclassical tendency, commissioned by Don Aurelio Portuondo y Barceló.

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Museo Regional de Antropología

The museum was inaugurated in December 1959. Since 1980, its permanent exhibition on pre-Hispanic Mayan society has been on display on the main floor. Temporary exhibitions, educational workshops, and cultural events are held upstairs.

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Montejo 495

The building is in Art Nouveau architectural style, designed by the French architect Gustave Umbdenstock, and originally opened in 1911. Visitors can admire much of its interior spaces, it has more than 20 rooms that retain the original furniture

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Museo de la luz

This exhibition takes us into the secrets of colour to explore its physical, psychological, technological and cultural nature. Its journey will guide us through the curiosity and desire of human beings to capture and understand the illusory and intangible essence of colours through science, art and technology.

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