Museo del Desierto

The Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Coahuila, opened in 1999 and was designed by architect Francisco López Guerra. It is dedicated to promoting an ecological culture. Your visit takes you through four themed pavilions that bring the fascinating history and biodiversity of the Mexican desert to life through interactive exhibits. The pavilion "The Desert and Its Past" showcases fossils and geological formations, including an impressive 17-meter-long Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaur species. Another section explores the culture of the region's nomadic inhabitants through petroglyphs and rock paintings. The exhibit on evolution and biodiversity displays traces of animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats from the last 12,000 years. Rounding out the offerings is the "Laboratory of Life," an interactive area with a biodome that traces 70 million years of fauna, as well as a herpetology lab where experts work with the museum's reptiles.