A Day of Museums, Science, and History in Monterrey

Monterrey surprised me with its museums, not only the volume of them, but the care put into preserving history.

In the historic center, you’ll find museums that feel like stepping back in time. Out in the countryside, you’ll find places where scientists from around the world gather to study ancient fossils and handwritten texts that have survived for centuries.

One museum cost just 20 pesos to enter, less than what you’d pay for a cup of coffee in the U.S. And yet inside, the collections were extraordinary. Books older than some countries. Fossils that stretched far beyond the scale of human history. Rooms that held stories we’re still learning how to tell.

That’s the magic of Monterrey: it humbles you. It reminds you that history is much larger than the places we come from.