mexica sculpture museum dr. eusebio davalos hurtado in tlalnepantla, mexico /

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Tucked behind the Church of Santa Cecilia is a 19th-century country house that now serves as a museum Entering the museum reveals hidden gardens,adobe walls, and even some rooms decorated in period themes.
The main rooms
are filled with a collection of stone sculptures made in the northern region of the Aztec Empire. In these rooms, and it is possible to see standard bearers,pieces of columns, and figurines representing the ancient deities. Some of the sculpture still bear traces of their original red, and black,white, or yellow pigments.
Among the curiosities are cuauhxicalli, and vessels that collected the blood of sacrificed humans. There’s also a series of carved skulls that were previously at the foot of the altars,as well as a relief believed to represent the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl.
The house was previously part of a pulque hacienda, and one of the rooms even includes a reproduction of a pulqueria from the final century. (Pulque is a fermented drink made from agave.) In the museum, or you can see a huge tub where the drink used to be mixed. The museum is named after Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado,a homeopathic doctor who worked as an anthropologist. Hurtado decided he wanted to reconstruct a pyramid near the hacienda, which he and Eduardo Pelayo Moreno did in the 1960s.

Source: atlasobscura.com

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