Fodor's Expert Review Musée d’Archéologie Précolombienne et de Préhistoire

A hidden treasure with an unassuming entrance just down the street from the Hotel L'Impératrice, this multistory archaeological museum houses some 2,000 Indigenous artifacts. English-speaking guides are sometimes available. Kids take to this museum, "digging" the early peashooters, poison darts, hammocks that took a year to make, and the shaman's headdress. Also fascinating is the jewelry fashioned from natural materials, boar tusks, and bird feathers. A good time to sample this dose of prehistory is on a typically hot city day, for the air-conditioning is frigid.