El Museo del Templo Mayor

The Templo Mayor Museum is located in the historic center of Mexico City, which was also the center of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. The purpose of the museum is to present the discoveries of the archaeological excavations of the Templo Mayor. Inaugurated in 1987, it is the work of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Jorge Ramírez Campuzano. It houses the monolith of Coyolxauhqui. The museum's permanent exhibition presents a selection of objects discovered during the excavations of the Templo Mayor; these are distributed in the vestibule and in eight thematic rooms

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The Major Temple is the Spanish name for the great stepped pyramid of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, and the ceremonial center in which it was located, which is sometimes called Sacred Precinct. After the capture of the city by Hernán Cortés (August 13, 1521) and the disappearance of the Aztec Empire, the Templo Mayor was destroyed, as was almost the entire city, replaced from 1524 onwards bythe Spanish city of México.