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Temple of Saint Augustine and Old National Library

Ubicaci�n República del Salvador #76, Col. Centro.

Temples Temples

Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl Temple, Tlatelolco

Ubicaci�n Av. Ricardo Flores Magón, col. Guerrero, Cuauhtémoc, 06300 CDMX

Archaeological Sites

Museo del Caracol

Ubicaci�n 1ª Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec, Col. Bosque de Chapultepec.

Museums Museums

Manuel Orozco y Berra Library & INAH Historical Studies Center

Ubicaci�n Ignacio Allende 172, Tlalpan Centro I, Tlalpan, 14000 CDMX

Libraries

Casa del Poeta Ramon López Velarde

Ubicaci�n Av. Álvaro Obregón 73, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, 06700 CDMX

Museums Museums

Chapultepec Castle, National History Museum,

Ubicaci�n Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección s/n, Col. Bosque de Chapultepec.

Chapultepec y Paseo de la Reforma (15 lugares)

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History

INAH is Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia).

For lots of international visitors, that might mean simply The Anthropology Museum. That's indeed INAH's most popular destination, and one of the most important museums they run. In fact, they run quite a lot more. No fewer than 12 museums in Mexico City are INAH museums. They also administer the four most important archeological sites in Mexico City.

An institute run entirely by the Mexican federal government, it was founded on February 3, 1939, under a mandate from President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.

Its creation has played a key role in preserving the Mexican cultural heritage. The INAH is headquartered today in the Palace of the Marqués del Apartado. Its influence on this and hundreds of other valuable historical sites and properties in the country is probably incalculable.

Often together with the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura - INBAL), INAH catalogs and protects buildings, archaeological sites, monuments and other artifacts considered part of the cultural heritage.