Municipal Museum of Mexico city is situated in an old Baroque Palace from the 18th century, once belonging to the counts of Santiago de Calimaya, the descendants of the famous Conquistador of Joaquin Cortes. The Museum building was built in 1781 by architect Francisco Guerrero Torres. Its facade is covered with volcanic stone tezontle, typical for buildings of the Baroque style. Into the wall from the South-West integrated stone head of a winged serpent. At the beginning of the 20th century, there lived a painter Joaquin Clausell. His Studio was located on the third floor and now it is a separate exhibition hall, the walls of which are covered with unusual murals, impressionistic collages.

The Museum in this building has existed since 1964. In 26 halls of the Palace displayed the history of Mexico since the Aztec times to the present day. The permanent exhibition is divided into periods: pre-Hispanic, colonial period (16th-18th century), 19th century and 20th century. Among the exhibits halls pre-Hispanic period, you can see the bowls, vessels, urns, archaic Aztec manuscripts, maps, and objects of everyday life of ancient peoples of Mexico. The collection of the colonial period and the 19th, 20th centuries and is furniture, ancient vases, jugs, and art objects, paintings and sculptures. Among other things, the Museum has a library, a Mexican poet, novelist and politician Khaimah Torres Bodet. It collected about 10 thousand volumes of articles related to the history of Mexico city. The collection is a collection of Newspapers of the 19th century, copies or originals of laws and a huge collection of books about the history of the city.

In the Museum of Mexico city often hosts temporary exhibitions, workshops for adults and children, concerts.