Museum del Valle de Tehuacan

Museum del Valle de Tehuacan was opened in 1967 and is located on the territory of the former Carmelite convent of the seventeenth century. The museum exhibition showing the development of agriculture in the region (for example, the domestication of maize) and the transformation of villages in the city. There is a section dedicated to pre-Hispanic gods or temporary exhibitions. The museum includes a small garden in which are grown endemic plants. Certain famous artefacts of the museum - the oldest corncobs or samples of seeds of various plants, stone tools, pottery and masks - complete the existing collections.