The Anthropology Museum in Xalapa (about 5 hrs by bus from Mexico City) has an excellent collection of big, stone, Olmec heads. They’re exhibited in a series of galleries connected off of a single, long, well-lit hall. There’s plenty of space in the museum, too, to allow visitors to walk around and see the pieces, Olmec and others, from every angle.
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- This head, by the main entrance, looks too good to be real. But it is.
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- The layout of the museum is very well done.
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- Up close and personal.
México, D.F.
Filed under: Mike's Notes on Mexico: Places and Peoples | Tagged: Mexico, Museum of Anthropology, Olmec, Xalapa
