Park Museum La Venta

Park Museum La Venta - the only museum in the open air in Mexico. Exposure cultural center dedicated to the history and culture of the Olmecs - the ancient Indian population of the Yucatan Peninsula. The park is more than six hectares of its territory you can see 38 outstanding monuments of the Olmec material culture. This altars, steles, obelisks, mosaics, and the main characters of ancient culture - huge stone heads that are larger than a few meters. The exhibits were collected in La Venta in the early fifties of the XX century through the efforts of the poet Carlos Pelisera. The museum is notable for its parkland, home to animals and birds American jungle. Many of the sculptures are located in a natural environment, which allows tourists to feel like a pioneer who opened the monuments of ancient civilization.