Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archeology, Archaeological museum in Centro Histórico, Durango, Mexico.
The Ganot-Peschard Museum is an archaeological museum in the historic center of Durango with seven permanent exhibition halls. These display artifacts from pre-Hispanic cultures of northern Mexico including tools, architectural remnants, and skeletal remains from various periods.
The building was erected at the end of the 19th century and served over the years as a house, a printing house and a state archive. Historian Javier Guerrero Romero and architect Juan Águila restored it, and it opened as a museum on August 3, 1998. It is listed as a historical monument by INAH.
The exhibition rooms display the development of regional cultures such as Loma San Gabriel, Chalchihuita, Guadiana, and Aztatlán through their objects and spatial arrangement. Visitors can see how different groups lived and organized themselves across generations in this region.
The museum occupies a restored late-19th-century building in Zona Centro, Durango, entered through a quarry-framed gate; inside are a lobby, a patio and two arcades with a mural of Durango's regions. Guided tours, walks to archaeological sites, clay-modelling and saddlery courses are organised alongside the seven permanent rooms.
The collection grew from over 30 years of systematic fieldwork by two dedicated researchers who searched deliberately throughout the region for discoveries. This intensive personal gathering made it possible to create a coherent and thorough documentation of local archaeological history.
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