Source: WTL digital photograph taken at site in 2007.
Notes: After passing through the entrance hall (40 pesos; Tuesday through Sunday 9:00 - 19.00), we enter the huge central patio, seen here. In the wings to the right, center, and left from where the photographer-professor is standing (the photographer you see is another tourist), separate rooms are dedicated to art from major pre-Columbian civilizations: Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec, Oaxaca, Gulf Coast, northern Mexico, and western Mexico. In the center of this patio you see a sculpted pillar 36 ft high (11 m). The pillar is supporting a canopy 275 ft long (84 m), and it is covered with bas relief sculptures of ancient European and Mexican civilizations. Furthermore, the pillar is the central piece in an open fountain where the water falls in a circle around the pillar onto the patio floor below.