Museo de las Culturas Review

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Museo de las Culturas

  • Address: Plaza Santa Domingo, Macedonio Alcalá at Adolfo Gurrión, Centro Histórico, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, 68000
  • Phone: 951/516-2991

Fodor's Review:

This gorgeous museum is laid out in a series of galleries around the cloister of the labyrinthine Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo. On the ground floor are temporary exhibits and a collection of antique books. On the second floor you'll find rooms dedicated to Oaxacan music, medicine, indigenous languages, and pottery. More than a dozen other salons have been organized chronologically. Here you'll find such Monte Albán treasures as the stunning gold jewelry from Tomb 7—among the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Signage is in Spanish only, but English-language audio tours are available. Several lovely second-floor balconies have views of the botanical garden.

  • Cost: $4.50
  • Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-7, last entrance at 6:15.
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