Chichén Itzá, besides being one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, will have its own museum by 2023 thanks to the archaeological findings of the Maya Train.
The anthropologist and director of the National Institute of Anthropology, Diego Prieto Hernández, announced during a virtual press conference that the findings from the Maya Train will be exhibited by 2023 in two new museums located in Chichén Itzá and on the Puuc Route.
According to Prieto Hernández, “many of the rescued pieces can go to these two museums, it could also be in the Mayan Museum of Cancun, we could enrich the archaeological theme of the Palacio Cantón Museum and the Gran Mundo Maya Museum, which is not from the INAH, but has conditions that could get rich. The idea is no longer that everything comes to Mexico City, or that everything goes to the state capitals, but that the pieces are preferably in an area close to their context”
So far, over 17,000 monuments have been registered from salvages and surface tours, of which 15,585 are immovable monuments, such as vessels, grinding stones, and other concentrations of materials.