Museo Arqueológico de Puerto Vallarta - Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, MX
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N 20° 36.349 W 105° 14.226
13Q E 475294 N 2278541
The Museo Arqueológico de Puerto Vallarta is located at:
Isla de los Niños, Local 1-A
Centro
CP 48300
Puerto Vallarta, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Waymark Code: WMJZAQ
Location: Jalisco, Mexico
Date Posted: 01/21/2014
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This small Museum has artifacts from the area's archaelogical record.
The Museum doesn't seem to have its own website, bur this one (
visit link) translated by Google into English informs us:
"Themes addressed in the Archaeological Museum of Puerto Vallarta
With the permanent exhibition of the museum , visitors can meet and learn about the traditions and customs of some nomadic groups inhabiting western Mexico in the pre-Hispanic era . The speech is divided into the following topics: 1. Nomadism to sedentarization . Two . Chupicuaro symmetry of design. Three . Shaft tombs , not offend underground. April . Aztatlán ; symbols in ceramics. May . The Purepecha , an empire in the West. 6. Spanish conquest, change and survival. It features authentic artifacts corresponding to various activities pottery, art, hunting and gathering, as projectile points , scrapers and hammers , all rescued in archaeological excavations in the regions of Sayula -Zacoalco , Jalisco, Mantanchen Bay , Nayarit, the Ixtapa area around Puerto Vallarta and Puerto Marqués in Guerrero."
and Wikipedia's Spanish page for the island (
visit link) has a section about the Museum which also translated informs us:
"Museum
Cuale Archaeological Museum is in the town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, which is a well known tourist attraction in recent years . It is located in the center part with the romantic zone , has a unique cultural treasure of the museum is small area only has two rooms and runs completely in less than an hour.
Opened on December 20, 2004 , as a museum of the National Institute of Anthropology and History ( INAH ) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts ( CONACULTA ) the Cuale , has minimal sample pre-Hispanic cultures of the West concentrated from Icesave , Sinaloa , to the state of Michoacan, Purepecha land."