Museo Arqueológico de Ciudad Guzmán

Guadalajara Region


This tiny museum, no larger than a room divided into various sections, does a decent job outlining the history of southern Jalisco state through various clay figures, pots and other archaeological finds amassed by founder Esteban Cibrián Guzmán in the 1950s.


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