The Puebla/Cholula area is home to numerous museums including the well-known Museo Internacional del Barroco and Museo Amparo. Many of these lesser-known museums are wonderful places to visit. Recently we had an opportunity to visit the Cast del Titere Marionetas Mexicanas. It houses 813 puppets from the Rosete Aranda-Espinal Collection, the most important in Latin America, and 630 puppets from the Guiñol Época de Oro Collection. These two great lineages make up the Mexican puppets belonging to the National Institute of Fine Arts. The museum is in the historical La Constancia, the first textile factory to use automated machinery for textile making.

The museum is housed on two floors with majority of the collection on the second floor. The reception, theater and interactive room are located on the first floor. Entrance fee is Mex$ 40 for adults and $20 for children. The main museum on the second floor is organized into various themes such as:

  • Fables and Tales
  • Literature
  • The Circus
  • Russian Influence
  • Mystery of the Orient
  • Rituals and Traditions
  • Mexican Folklore
  • Puppets Rosete Aranda
  • Apotheosis
  • Cueto Family Room
  • Heroes of the Country
  • Popular Music
  • Mexican History
  • Daily life
  • Opera Hall (Power of the Voice)
  • Lola Cueto’s Room

Many of the themes have both stationary exhibits and videos from a typical puppet show featuring that theme. A guide accompanies you and gives a more detailed description of the exhibits. My companion and I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to this museum.

This is a small museum but very well organized and well worth your time. There are other museums in the same La Constancia complex and many were closed. We plan to visit them in the future and hopefully write about them. Links to several other lesser-known museums in the Puebla/Cholula area are provided below.

Safe and Happy Travels. If Lupita Travels can assist you with tours in the Puebla/Cholula area, we will be happy to hear from you.

Till then,

Lupita

Some of the Lesser Known Museums well worth visiting in the Puebla/Cholula area.

  1. Museo José Luis Bello y González
  2. Museo Interactivo de La Batalla del 5 de Mayo
  3. Museo Infantil de La Constancia Mexicana
  4. Museo del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea Mexicanos
  5. Museo de la Música Mexicana Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
  6. Museo de la Evolución Puebla
  7. Fototeca Juan Crisóstomo Méndez
  8. Casa del Títere Marionetas Mexicanas
  9. Museo Taller Erasto Cortés
  10. Museo Regional de la Revolución Mexicana Casa de los Hermanos Serdán
  11. Museo Regional Casa de Alfeñique
  12. Museo de Arte Popular Ex Convento de Santa Rosa
  13. Museo Regional de Cholula
  14. Museo del Automóvil Puebla
  15. Museo Internacional del Barroco
  16. Casa de la Música de Viena en Puebla
  17. Museo de la Evolución Tehuacán
  18. Galería Tesoros de Catedral
  19. Fonoteca Vicente Teódulo Mendoza