Comitan´s Archaeological Museum, located in the region that once was named Balun Canaan, the land that Rosario Castellanos loved a lot. It was opened on August 28, 1993 after restructuring what once was the first federal elementary school at the locality, within the gardens of a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery.

The exterior, which highlights its porch, is a provincial version of Art Deco, widely used in the era of Mexican artistic nationalism. The interior, however, is done according to the traditional way of Comitan: a courtyard surrounded by corridors. A bust of the musician Esteban Alfonso decorates the courtyard.

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