The Museo Miraflores is an

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, dedicated to the display of artefacts from the ancient

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city of

Kaminaljuyu Kaminaljuyu (pronounced ) is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization that was primarily occupied from 1500 BC to AD 1200. Kaminaljuyu has been described as one of the greatest of all archaeological sites in the New World by Michael Coe, a ...

. The museum is open from Tuesday through to Sunday. The museum was founded in 2002.Herrera 2011. The museum is located in Zone 11 of Guatemala City, in the southern part of the area once covered by the

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of Kaminaljuyu.Museo Miraflores (1). It covers an area of approximately . Within the grounds of the museum are three preserved mounds. The modern museum is located in a shopping area outside the city centre. It is privately owned and run by the Fundación Miraflores ("Miraflores Foundation"), a for-profit organisation.Museo Miraflores (3). The museum is described with labels in Spanish and usually English too.

Facilities

The entrance hall to the museum has a map of the ancient city set into the floor, overlaid with glass marked with the streets of modern Guatemala City.Museo Miraflores (2). The museum has a permanent exhibition hall, a temporary exhibition hall and a mezanine with a display of 60 archaeological photographs taken between 1994 and 1996. The museum also has a shop and a cafeteria and is the venue for workshops, conferences and courses.REDCAMUS. The mounds within the museum garden are three of twenty-five ancient mounds surviving from Kaminaljuyu that are located on private property.Crasborn et al 2004, p.190. They are Structures B-V-3, B-V-4 and B-V-5; they have been provided with information plaques.

Collection

The collection includes approximately 500 artefacts excavated from Kaminaljuyu. Most of the artefacts were excavated from Kaminaljuyu during the period 1994 to 1996 by the Proyecto Miraflores ("Miraflores Project").Torres 2009. However, not all the artefacts on display have a local origin, and some have come from further afield in Guatemala, especially from

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sites that had contact with Kaminaljuyu. Among the artefacts in the collection are a mosaic mask consisting of 19 pieces of

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of unknown provenance and a sculpted stone atlante column.Anonymous 2011. Other collections at the museum include indigenous textiles from the

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and monthly displays of modern art.

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* * * * * * * * {{Authority control Buildings and structures in Guatemala City Archaeological museums in Guatemala Mesoamerican art museums Museums established in 2002 2002 establishments in Guatemala