Museum of Mayan Medicine

Its main objective is the dissemination of tsotsil-tseltal healing practices in the state of Chiapas. Formed by a diversity of museum environments that recreate the uses of this traditional medicine, in addition to the practice and therapeutic resources used by the Jilol (push-button), Koponej witz (mountain prayer), Tzakbak (bonesetter), Jvetome (midwife) and Acvomol (herbalist). The museum discourse is developed through six environments or rooms and a demonstration garden, which contains a significant number of medicinal plants. In 1998 the Museum of Mayan Medicine received the Miguel Covarrubias National Prize for Museography, from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.