The Palenque site Museum, located 1.5 kilometers before the site entrance, is open 6 days a week, from Tuesday to Sunday. On Mondays it is closed! You will be able to see several maps and a scale mock up to get an idea of the size of Palenque at the site museum, which is not to be missed.

The map shows that only one fourth of the structures have been excavated and an intricate model of the Palace complex shows how it would have appeared in the Classic Period. The tops of the buildings were adorned with roof combs.

Several carved panels were removed from the site and a good number of incense burners -large urns with elaborately stuccoed Gods and mythological creatures- with explanations in Spanish and English are at the site museum. There is also a reproduction of Hanab Pakal's famous sarcophagous lid and a new exhibit has been planned so you will soon be able to see the tomb as close as possible to the "real thing" inside the Temple of the Inscriptions.

 

 


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