First created by a governmental decree on 30 June 1898, the institution and collections of MUNAE relocated premises several times subsequently, until they were established in its present building in 1946. The museum has some 3000 square meters of exhibition space, and 1500 sq.m. devoted to restorative and research purposes. MUNAE's collections amount to some 20 thousand archaeological artifacts and 5 thousand ethnological items.
Donations
In October 2021, a fragment of stela 9 of Piedras Negras was returned to the museum by a private collector in France. Stolen from the site in the 1960s, it had reappeared in Paris on a 2019 auction.[1]
