La Venta Museum Park

Informaciones generales

Destino
Villahermosa, Mexico

Detalles del programa

Visit this wonderful museum and enjoy. A combination of Archaeology and Nature, located beside the lake border of Illusions , in the City Villahermosa. It was designed by the writer Carlos Pellicer Cámara and remodeled in 1994 according to the project of the architect Iker Larrauri.


It exhibits a collection of 33 archaeological monuments like altars, wakes and colossal heads (1300-200 B.C.), and around 650 species of living fauna, like mammals, birds and reptiles, besides the representative flora of this tropical region. It is a combination of archeology and nature, located in an eight-hectare surface, on the banks of the Lake of the illusions, in the city of Villahermosa. It is divided into 2 areas: zoological and archaeological. The first one exhibits animals belonging to this tropical region; and the second area has monumental pieces of the Olmec culture; it also has 33 sculptures that are classified in 3 groups: altars, wakes and colossal heads.





Meeting/pick-up point: Pick up at the hotel lobby in Villahermosa.

Duration: 5 hours.

Start/opening time: At 8:30am.

End/closing time: A 1:30pm.

Others: We suggest bringing comfortable shoes and clothes, a hat and sunglasses, sunscreen, extra cash if you want to buy a souvenir and additional meals.