La Venta Park Museum

This museum holds one of the largest collections of monumental pieces belonging to the Olmec culture, the first civilization of Mesoamerica. This site was designed, organized and shaped by the Tabasco poet Carlos Pellicer Cámara and inaugurated on March 4, 1958. It has a space of 6.5 hectares divided into two areas: the archaeological and the zoological. In the first we can find animals belonging to the tropical region of our state; and in the second are exhibited pieces from the archaeological settlement of La Venta, in Huimanguillo, Tabasco. While the visitor travels and admires the flora and fauna of the place, he can also appreciate the impressive pre-Hispanic monuments among which stand out human figures manifested in altars, colossal heads and stelae representing fantastic beings that mark the threshold of the Olmec underworld, as well as stone mosaics that constitute one of the most important mass offerings of this culture.