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Museo Miraflores
 The Museo Miraflores is an archaeological museum in Guatemala City, dedicated to the display of artefacts from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.[1] The museum is open from Tuesday through to Sunday.[2] The museum was founded in 2002.[3] The museum is located in Zone 11 of Guatemala City, in the southern part of the area once covered by the Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.[4] It covers an area of approximately 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft).[4] Within the grounds of the museum are three preserved mounds.[4] The modern museum is located in a shopping area outside the city centre.[5] It is privately owned and run by the Fundación Miraflores ("Miraflores Foundation"), a for-profit organisation.[6] The museum is described with labels in Spanish and usually English too.[5] FacilitiesThe entrance hall to the museum has a map of the ancient city set into the floor, overlaid with glass marked with the streets of modern Guatemala City.[7] The museum has a permanent exhibition hall, a temporary exhibition hall and a mezanine with a display of 60 archaeological photographs taken between 1994 and 1996.[7] The museum also has a shop and a cafeteria and is the venue for workshops, conferences and courses.[2] The mounds within the museum garden are three of twenty-five ancient mounds surviving from Kaminaljuyu that are located on private property.[8] They are Structures B-V-3, B-V-4 and B-V-5;[8] they have been provided with information plaques.[9] Collection
The collection includes approximately 500 artefacts excavated from Kaminaljuyu.[4] Most of the artefacts were excavated from Kaminaljuyu during the period 1994 to 1996 by the Proyecto Miraflores ("Miraflores Project").[10] However, not all the artefacts on display have a local origin, and some have come from further afield in Guatemala, especially from pre-Columbian sites that had contact with Kaminaljuyu.[10] Among the artefacts in the collection are a mosaic mask consisting of 19 pieces of jade of unknown provenance and a sculpted stone atlante column.[11] Other collections at the museum include indigenous textiles from the Guatemalan Highlands and monthly displays of modern art.[10] Notes
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