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Café Museo Café
This combined cafe and coffee museum is a venture of Coopcafé, a grouping of 17,000 small-scale, mainly indigenous, Chiapas coffee growers. The museum covers the history of coffee and its cultivation in Chiapas, from highly exploitative beginnings to the community-based indigenous coffee production that's increasingly well marketed today. The information is translated into English and you can taste yummy organic coffee in the cafe.
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Centro Cultural de los Altos
The ex-monastery attached to Santo Domingo contains two interesting exhibits: one is the weavers' showroom of Sna Jolobil; the other is the Centro Cultural de los Altos , with a reasonable Spanish-language museum on the history of the San Cristóbal region.
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Centro Cultural El Carmen
The Arco de El Carmen, at the southern end of the Andador Turístico on Avenida Hidalgo, dates from the late 17th century and was once the city's gateway. The ex-convent just east is a wonderful colonial building, with a large peaceful garden. It's now the Centro Cultural El Carmen, hosting art and photography exhibitions and the occasional musical event.
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Museo de la Medicina Maya
The award-winning Museo de la Medicina Maya introduces the system of traditional medicine used by many indigenous people in the Chiapas highlands. It's a 15-minute walk north from Calle Real de Guadalupe or around $18 by taxi.
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Museo del Ámbar de Chiapas
Chiapas amber - fossilized pine resin, around 30 million years old - is known for its clarity and diverse colors. Most is mined around Simojovel, north of San Cristóbal. The Museo del Ámbar de Chiapas explains all things amber (with information sheets in English and other languages) and displays and sells some exquisitely carved items and insect-embedded pieces.
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Na Bolom
Na Bolom means 'Jaguar House' in the Tzotzil language (as well as being a play on its former owners' name). It's full of photographs, archaeological and anthropological relics and books. The house tour provides a revealing insight into the lives of the former owners and the Chiapas of half a century and more ago.
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