Museo Nacional de Historia

Mexico's National Museum of History, the Museo Nacional de Historia, occupies Chapultepec Castle, which stands in the first section of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. Founded in 1944, it is one of the country's national museums and drew more than two million visitors in 2017.

Twelve showrooms trace the stages of Mexican history through objects. They run from the founding of the Spanish Empire, known in Mexico as the Conquest, through New Spain and the viceregal era, called the Colonial epoch, to the Mexican War of Independence, the Liberal Reform and the Revolution of 1910.

The top floor holds a library and two sections of dioramas that recreate rooms of the castle as they were when Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg lived there with his wife Carlota. Beyond the galleries, the museum also includes a garden area and an old observatory.