Museo Nacional de la Máscara

San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Museo Nacional de la Máscara (National Mask Museum) is a museum in the city of San Luis Potosí dedicated to Mexico's masked dance and ritual heritage from the pre Hispanic period to the present. It is located in a former mansion on Plaza del Carmen, which became federal property in 1907, housing the

current museum since 1982. The permanent collection contains about 1,300 pieces, the second largest in Mexico after Rafael Coronel Museum in Zacatecas city, and is almost entirely made of Mexican masks and dance costumes.

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Estadio Alfonso Lastras stadium · 3 km away
Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosí university · 3 km away
Bandera Monumental monumenti · 5 km away
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, San Luis Potosí university · 7 km away