Other important cultural sites
Crocodile Museum
The Crocodile Museum was inaugurated on August 3, 2004. It is the most recent site of the Miguel Alvarez del Toro Regional Zoo and due to the peculiarity of its exhibitions, it is considered the only one of its kind in the world.
It is a superb space designed to give the public a didactic perception of the importance that crocodilians have in the ecological, cultural, scientific and economic life of mankind.
📍 Address: Calle Señor del Pozo 242, Cerro Hueco, 29094 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chis., Mexico
📞 Telephone: +52 961 639 2856
⏱️ Opening hours: Open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 am to 6 pm.
💲 Average budget: $20 pesos per person
Regional Museum of Chiapas
The current museum building is a modern building that is distinguished by its large open spaces. Its appearance is an architectural bet characterized by the use of partitioning, which gives it a particularity among the great contemporary works of the capital of Chiapas. The Museum exhibits exclusive archaeological pieces that can only be found here.
Room 1 is dedicated to pre-Hispanic culture and room 2 to works from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
📍 Address: Hombres Ilustres de la Revolución Mexicana s/n Centro CP 29000 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
📞 Telephone: +52 961 613 44 79
⏱️ Opening hours: Open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm.
💲 Average budget: $60 pesos per person.
🏺 Marimba Museum
The marimba is an emblematic wooden percussion instrument from Chiapas.
It is a symbol of identity among the peoples of the region and a great banner of Chiapas culture.
For these reasons, the Marimba Museum, opened in 2006, aims to stimulate, preserve and disseminate the marimba culture.
This building is located in front of the popular Marimba Park.
The museum has five galleries, one of which is dedicated to the presentation of the great composers of Chiapas who used this instrument to interpret their music, such as Zeferino Nandayapa, an international marimba player.
📍 Address: 9a poniente norte (frente al Parque Jardín de la Marimba) 115, esquina con Av Central, Col. Tuxtla Gutiérrez Centro, P.O. Box 29000, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
📞 Telephone: +52 961 600 0174
⏱️ Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 10:00 pm.
💲 Average budget: $10 pesos
Planetarium / Jaime Sabines Cultural Centre
This site, located in the emblematic Parque de Convivencia Infantil in the capital of Chiapas, has an innovative architectural design. Unlike most planetariums, which usually project images of the cosmos with a fisheye lens located in the center of the auditorium, in the dome of the Tuxtla Planetarium, the 129 seats are arranged in almost the same way as a classic cinema.
📍 Address: Av. Quinta Norte Oriente s/n Parque Madero CP 29043 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
📞 Telephone: +52 961 639 25 64
⏱️ Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 16:30. Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 to 18:00.
💲 Average budget: $40 peso