Historical Museum of the North (Museo Historico del Norte)

National Museum of History, in Mexico City, an offshoot of the National Museum of Anthropology (founded 1825). In 1940 the National Historical Museum became a separate institution specializing in Mexican history from the Spanish conquest in the 1500s to the promulgation of the constitution of 1917.

The historic castle hosts the National History Museum. On top of the Cerro del Chapulín, it's been the most visible hill in the valley, and has been vitally important for inhabitants of the region since at least the 13th century.

It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (mouseion), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence was a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at Alexandria, built under ...