National Museum of Anthropology

The Stone of the Sun, often called the Aztec calendar stone, and the Aztec statue of Xochipilli are among the works that make the National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología) the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. It drew more than three and a half million visitors in 2024, placing it among the most-visited art museums in the world.

The collection centers on significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage. The Mexica, or Aztec, hall holds a central place in the museum. The writer Octavio Paz criticized this choice, saying it turned the museum into a temple to Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

The architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca designed the museum, which President Adolfo López Mateos opened in 1964. It is run by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). It stands in Chapultepec Park, between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street, in grounds where Aztec emperors once spent time.