Lxkik Maya Museum

A museum that's an experience

The Ixkik Museum in Xela was an unexpectedly memorable experience for me. I don’t really have much interest in textiles or traditional clothing, and the museum itself, consisting of several rooms on...

A gem of a Museum

Beautiful museum. We got a tour by a very knowledgeable and delightful women who was one of the founder of the museum. She wore her traditional Guatemalan clothing. This little museum is a gem. She k...

Excellent museum and learned a lot

I love Mayan textiles. The Director gave us a tour, which made the visit. Not sure if a tour is required or what happens if you get there and she's in the middle of another tour, but we lucked out o...

Excellent museum

This is a highly recommended museum for anyone with an interest in Guatemalan Highland culture, textiles or history. The guide spent a full hour with us, carefully explaining the symbolism of the colo...

A piece of mayan history inside !

This museum contains 20 rooms full of mayan tipical cloth from different areas close to Quetzaltenango. The tour guide was very helful in showing us all the details and reasoning behind each cloth. Th...