Native Trails MyTrails 2025 66 Chiapas 22 Visit of the Museo de la Marimba Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy You visit the Museo de la Marimba. Music has always been a form of expressing feelings and deep convictions, which Mexican musicians like to convey by using the marimba. The museum makes you familiar with the history and origin of the instrument and, of course, also gives you the opportunity to try and play it. 23 Visit of the Museo de Medicina Maya Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy The Museo de Medicina Maya gives you an overview of the Mayan spiritual ways of healing and medicines. The vivid impressions of the healers’ work, in which prayers and other rituals are of great importance, are truly fascinating. Particularly interesting, not only for lay visitors, but also for scientists from all over the world, is the attached pharmacy where the people from the indigenous villages sell herbs they have gathered or exchange them for mixtures for herbal teas and other medicines from animal and mineral ingredients. 24 Visit of the Museum for Textiles and the History Museum of San Cristóbal de las Casas Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The Museo de los Altos de Chiapas with the attached Centro Textil del Mundo Maya is housed in a former monastery, one of the most important buildings of religious Baroque architecture in Mexico. It is particularly concerned with the region in precolonial and early colonial times and the encounter between imported Christianity and the indigenous religions. Special attention should also be paid to the fascinating textile collections, which focus on contemporary design, textile art of the Mayas, and the translation of old Maya codices into fabrics. 25 Visit of the Na Bolom Museum Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy The building complex, built in colonial style in 1891, unites a hotel, a library, a cultural and research center, and an archaeological museum. Na Bolom means “house of jaguar” and is a public-utility, non-government organization founded in 1951 by Danish archaeologist Frans Blom and his wife Gertrude Duby, a photographer from Switzerland. Both were dedicated to research into the Lacandons, the indigenous population of Chiapas. The exhibits of the museum include many pieces of the Blom family’s private collection. 26 Visit of the Museo Mesoamericano del Jade Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy In the prehispanic civilizations of Mesoamerica, jade was of eminent importance as a gem to produce statuettes, masks or highest-quality jewels. You can admire examples of this art in the jade museum Museo Mesoamericano del Jade of San Cristóbal de las Casas. Replicas of works, made by the Mixtec, Olmec, Mayas, and other peoples, are presented in several halls. Particularly impressive is the replica of the tomb of Palenque’s ruler Pacal, as it is assumed to have looked when Pacal died in 683. 27 Learn all about cocoa during a visit of the KAKAW Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy What place could be better to get information about the history of cacao and cacao products than the region where the plant was first cultivated? Visit the KAKAW, Museo del Cacao, to learn all about the cultivation, harvest and processing of cacao, but also about the importance of the “food of the gods” – as the botanical name is translated – for the Mexican Indians. And how about a cup or a bar of chocolate from the area with the longest tradition of cacao cultivation to end your tour?
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