The National Museum of History (

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: ), also known as MNH, is a

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, located inside

Chapultepec Castle Chapultepec Castle ( es, Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name ''Chapultepec'' is the Nahuatl word ''chapoltepēc'' which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". The castle has ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

. The Castle itself is found within the first section of the well known

Chapultepec Chapultepec, more commonly called the "Bosque de Chapultepec" (Chapultepec Forest) in Mexico City, is one of the largest city parks in Mexico, measuring in total just over 686 hectares (1,695 acres). Centered on a rock formation called Chapultep ...

Park. The museum received 2,135,465 visitors in 2017. The museum hosts twelve showrooms that house objects from various stages in

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, including the foundation of the

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(known in

as “The Conquest”), the

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and the Viceregal era (known in

as “The Colonial epoch”), the

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, the

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, and the Revolution of 1910. On the top floor, in addition to a library, there are two sections with

diorama A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum. Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies such as military vehicle mode ...

s recreating rooms of the castle during the time when Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg lived there with his wife Princess Carlota. The museum also hosts a garden area and an old observatory. It is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

References

External links

Official website
History museums in Mexico Museums in Mexico City National museums of Mexico {{Mexico-museum-stub