The magical state of Chiapas is waiting for you, full of culture and tradition, with ancient Mexico still alive in all its streets...


We are located right on the main street (Avenue Juarez) just one block down from the Zocalo (park).

Tel:
01 916 34 5 24 52
Fax: 01 916 34 5 20 68


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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS / TABASCO / MUSEO LA VENTA
Between 1957 and 1958 the poet Carlos Pellicer rescued the principal monuments of thIS inaccessible archaeological site, and placed them in an ambience similar to that of his birthplace, to announce to the world one of the most notable sets of this type: the Park Museum of The Selling in Villahermosa, Tabasco.

New footpaths were planned in the area where the archaeological monuments are located and some sculptures were relocated. Previously the Park was a large square, where local craftspeople exhibited their wares. New services for the visitors were established: snack bars, shelters, bathrooms & phones.

Under the supervision of UNAH and with technical support from the Getty Conservation Institute, the area has been restored using suitable materials, and with internal wastepipes to drain rainwater to avoid capillary water damage.

The Olmecs of La Venta is an enclosure installed in a large ramp of multiple uses which was previously in the area's regional zoo - and was prepared in consultancy with the archaeologists Rebeca González-Lauck and Hernando Gómez, and Iker Larrauri created the design graphics.

After welcoming the visitors, the creation of the park is explained, and its relocation in this context. A definition of Olmec culture is given, as one of the more spectacular of ancient Mexico, arising 3,000 years ago on the Gulf Coast. In contrast to its contemporaries, this society was already divided, so that the peasants - residents in villages or small dispersed peoples - supported the priests & leaders, who were living in well-planned cities. The second topic refers to the rescue of the monuments. By means of ancient photography, Carlos Pellicer presented his reasons for moving the monuments of La Venta to Villahermosa.

A map of the area of this Gulf coast with outstanding expressions of the Olmec determines their known dates, and initiates the following topic: The territory and time. In the center of the spread, in a pit of 80 cm of excavated depth, there remains a big mock-up that proves to be the reconstruction of the administration of the city of La Venta, with its sets of placed buildings to a conventional scale - in the exact opposite location. Many of them are a miniature mirror of those in the Park. Likewise, as in subsoil of La Venta, beautiful gifts appeared, multiple statuettes and sarcofagi, and they were also they were represented to scale. In the certificates they speak about the leaders, the credence, the symbols and the art of the Olmec of La Venta.

Examples of ceremonial ceramics of the area are scarce, so several reproductions have been created for the area, and are exhibited along with several original statuettes.

In diverse areas of the Museum, there appear copies of various Olmec sculptures slightly well-known and not in the Park: the Juchimán, Colossal Ia Cabeza number 2, the Dancing Tiger, beautiful heads with glifos in the eyes, among others.

Finally, by means of murals and some original objects, visitors learn about Olmec survival and the trade of the settlers of the area, and their high level In these sections Ia explains to himself wealth of Ia ground in Ia which of social development.

To complement the tour, EDUMAC produced an interactive electronic program called "olmecas and its relations with other towns", -a new educational method in museums, and widely accepted by children, young people and adults.

One of the most beautiful spaces in the Museum is a gift, composed of 115 original axes of stone green installed in a shop window excavated from the soil: of an Iecho of sand worn gilthead of the region of Huimanguillo, coIocaron Ith axes representing someone of importance, with many massive gifts of beautiful materials. As epilogue presents itself in the Estela 5 of La Venta, which can be related to death under siege.

Directly from the Museum, towards the Archaeological Park, visitors will observe the monuments from another perspective: they will understand that in addition to being magnificent pieces of art, La Venta is the product of an urban society with consolidated structures of power, which developed very early, 1,000 years ago - owing, on the one hand, to the natural wealth of the ground and, on the other, to the organization of an extensive network of exchange that the Olmecs established and to supported for hundreds of years, with its neighbours. Coming from the coast, Olmec works were always highly valued. In them are found burial gifts of important people and relics of advanced contexts, meaning that the recognition on the part of other peoples towards their myths and symbols were valued as a product of a complex and organized society.
 

 

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An owned and operated family business since 1985, dedicated to ensuring the quality supervision of the needs of each tourist who arrives in Palenque.

Kichan Bajlum, in the local Chol dialect, means "Uncle Tiger."

 
 
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