Call for program listings. Precise replicas of artifacts and sculpture are on display in the sculpture garden adjacent to the small but informative museum in this unexpected location. The fascinating histories of the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Huastec and Totonac civilizations are introduced. The collections of this museum represent Native American cultures from Alaska to South America and include important collections of Mesoamerican Precolumbian pottery and textiles as well as Hispanic folk and decorative arts. It's a good idea to get on their mailing list.
Parking is plentiful and well-directed by signs and attendants.
Three floors make up this enclosed market, and vendors in outside stalls sell sweets and aquas frutas . Some time during your visit you might want to look for the three examples of outdoor art by Jos -Luis Gonzalez that decorate the exterior of the market. In the rear of the parking lot is a mural portrait of Edward James Olmos, commissioned for the cover of Time magazine on July 11,1988, the year the Hollywood film Stand and Deliver was released. On the east side of the market, Mr. Gonzalez completed a tile mosaic of a Mayan warrior reaching toward the sun, and on the side facing Lorena is a glazed ceramic tile Mayan Rain God in bas-relief . Entering the market on the bottom floor, you will enjoy stalls with Mexican music, clothing, hats, shoes, ceramics, and botanicas as well as a travel agency and electronics and pager booths.