Museum sights in Tegucigalpa
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Chiminike
Chiminike is Tegucigalpa’s excellent children’s museum. Situated about 7km south of downtown, it caters to kids of all ages, from a peaceful infant/nursing area to adolescent-level displays on Maya history. It’s refreshingly frank: the area about the human body has exhibits on the hows and whys of farting, vomiting, sneezing and body odor, while a crawl-through digestive tract starts at the mouth and ends with a slide through an oversized rectum.
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Museo Nacional de Historia Y Antropología Villa Roy
The Museo Nacional de Historia y Antropología Villa Roy is housed in the former home of ex-president Julio Lozano (near Calle Morelos), an opulent two-story mansion overlooking the city. Fascinating, if somewhat intense, the museum traces a chronological path through Honduran history, from independence, through the Liberal reform period, to modern-day Honduras. Displays are long and detailed (and in Spanish only). The section on the Vaccaro brothers and the rise of Standard and United Fruit companies will be interesting even to casual visitors, as few events have more deeply shaped Honduras’ past and present.
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Museo de Historia Natural
Just down the hill from the Basilica de Suyapa is the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH). Typically called Ciudad Universitaria, it houses the Museo de Historia Natural in the biology building. The museum, however, is a serious downer despite the upbeat listing in Honduras Tips.
It houses a sad collection of stuffed birds and animals, many with eyes missing, and feathers and fur coming off in clumps. Only the whale skeleton and petrified dung display are remotely memorable, but still not worth the effort, even for kids.
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Centro de Documentación Historica
The Centro de Documentación Historica is a museum tracing the history of Honduras from independence to the present. The displays are interesting enough, but other museums cover the same ground just as well (sometimes better). The building housing them is the real gem, having served as the Casa Presidencial (Presidential Palace) from 1920 until 1992.
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Museo Para la Identidad Nacional
Tegucigalpa’s newest museum is the ambitious Museo para la Identidad Nacional, which is intended to encapsulate the whole of Honduran history, from pre-Colombian civilization to the present day. It still hasn’t achieved that to great end. Admission costs and hours vary.
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Museo del Hombre Hondureño
The Museo del Hombre Hondureño displays Honduran art, mostly contemporary work. Admission price and hours vary: it is often closed, opening mainly for special events or private parties.
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Museo Histórico Militar
Not worth your time is the Museo Histórico Militar, which was closed when we visited but, when open, could barely rustle up a few uniforms and rusty weapons.
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