🇲🇽Mexico City

The Museum Everyone Forced Me to Visit! Spent two half-days here in five days - and scored free entry once! 🤪 🎨 National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología) My hall rankings (best first): 🏆 1. Teotihuacán Hall Once Mesoamerica's grandest city, this hall dazzles with colossal stone carvings, vivid murals, and the breathtaking Feathered Serpent sculpture. Pro tip: The 1:100 scale model reveals the city's celestial alignment! 🥈 2. Olmec Hall Meet the "mother culture" through their 3-ton basalt heads (with baby-face features!) and exquisite jade artifacts. Fun fact: Some sculptures show possible early writing systems. 🔭 3. Mayan Astronomy & Mathematics Their calendar system will blow your mind - especially how they calculated Venus' cycles (584 days) with 0.001% error! Bonus: See the famous Dresden Codex replica. 🌍 4. Colonial Cultural Fusion The "Testerian Catechisms" show how indigenous artists reinterpreted Christianity - look for jaguars hidden in saints' robes! 🏜️ 5. Northern Desert Cultures The Paquimé macaw breeding pits and Tarahumara running artifacts prove desert cultures thrived. 💀 6. Aztec Rituals Not for the faint-hearted: The terrifying Tzompantli (skull rack) display explains sacrificial cosmology. 🧵 7. Indigenous Textiles Over 50 living cultures represented - the Mixtec goldwork and Huichol bead art are Instagram gold! ⚠️ Pro Tips: • Shoe game strong 👟 - You'll walk 8km+ • Download the MNA app (red icon) for AR reconstructions • Magic hour ⏳ - Arrive at 3pm Sundays for possible free entry • Must-do photo 📸: Strike a pose under "El Paraguas" rain fountain Final Thought: This isn't just a museum - it's a 3D textbook of civilizations! The "Sun Stone" alone deserves 30 minutes of staring. #CDMXmustsee #MuseumHack #AnthropologyNerd