---
node: spot_cancun_museo_maya_de_cancun
type: spot
slug: museo_maya_de_cancun
destination: dest_cancun
title: "Mayan Museum of Cancún"
lead: "The Mayan Museum opened in 2012 on the Hotel Zone, raised on piles nine metres above ground to keep it above hurricane flooding. Its ticket includes the San Miguelito ruins in the grounds behind it."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_cancun_museo_maya_de_cancun.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cabeza_de_se%C3%B1or_con_tocado.jpg"
image_author: "Barthelemy d´Ans"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## Overview

The collection covers the Maya of Quintana Roo, including the remains of the Woman of Naharon and Las Palmas, among the oldest human remains found in the Americas at some ten to twelve thousand years old, recovered from flooded cenotes. The building replaced an earlier museum that Hurricane Wilma destroyed in 2005, which is why it stands on stilts. San Miguelito, behind it, is a small Postclassic settlement with a pyramid, occupied when the Spanish arrived.

## Highlights

Do the museum first and the ruins after, since San Miguelito's labels assume the museum's chronology. Allow two hours for both. It is on Kukulcán Boulevard at kilometre 16.5, on the bus route, and is the only substantial thing to do in the Hotel Zone that is not a beach.