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Fabulous museum housing 7 of the 15 exsisting Olmeca heads!!!!!! What a treat!!! Leave a Comment Directions: u can take a bus from the centro to the museum, or a taxi ride for around 20 pesos
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If you`ve got a fair amount of time in Xalapa, you should definitely check out the Museo de Antropología which resides in Xalapa. The museum is home to a very impressive collection of giant Olmec heads, Olmec sculptures and pottery and ancient indigenous utensils, art, etc.
I am not normally impressed by museums and only went because I needed somewhere interesting to take a date, but I was genuinely quite impressed by this place.
One word of advice: If you are a student (and have student ID to prove it) tell them. There should be a student discount (1/2 off) IF YOU ASK FOR IT. I did not, and got charged double. It should cost 40.00 pesos (USD$ 4.00) for general admission, and half that much for students. Leave a Comment
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The Museum of Anthropology in Jalapa in Veracruz is for sure one of the Must-See-Museums in Mexico. It presents almost 30 centuries of art and history. It guards the most-important collection of pre-Columbian works produced by the groups who have been living in the state.
The museum is a dependency of the Universidad Veracruzana, which gives it a character of "living museum", that is, of an organization changing and updationg its contents thanks to the investigation. It was created in 1957, being the first one of the country in this type. The present building was constructed in 1986 by an architect from New York.
Opening hours every day of the year are from 9 am to 5 pm. There are 18 galleries, six rooms and 4 patios to be seen. The patrimony has been divided and lodged into several rooms using chronical and geographical criteria.
It begins with the Early Preclassic Period, presenting the Olmec culture with seven colossal heads, stone masks and monumental basalt thrones.
There are magnificent works in ceramics, including cihuateteo, sculptures of women in real size and more roo s representing the culture of El Tajin and Huastec until the conquest of this region.
What I liked best of the museum, besides its historical content, was the architecture and the gardening besides, including clear structures, without details. Leave a Comment Address: Av. Xalapa s/n Col. MagisterialDirections: Take a "Tesorería - Centro - SEP" or "Museo" bus west from in front of the Palacio Municipal en Enríquez. To return take a bus to "Centro", they cost 0.50 M$
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The Xalapa Symphony Orchestra is the oldest continuous orchestra in Mexico, now over 75 years old. Subsidies from the university have helped attract musicians from all over the world and allow for almost weekly friday night performances. The music is first class though and both modern and classical pieces are performed. With tickets costing only US $4-$8, both young and old are attracted and dress is casual. The same week I went, there was a performance by a touring Russian ballet at the same place where the symphony orchestra performs.
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