La Venta Museum Park

General information

Destination	Category
Villahermosa, Mexico	Sightseeing Tours

Program details

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.

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.


Location
Starting point:
Hotel pickup

Guiding options
Guiding type: Guide