Museo Popol Vuh

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The Museo Popol Vuh (Popol Vuh Museum) in Zona 10 of Guatemala City contains one of the finest public collections of Maya art in the world, including outstanding examples of painted Classic-era Maya civilization pottery and funerary urns from northwestern Guatemala. The museum was originally created in 1977 to house the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Castillo and now forms part of a beautiful architectural complex of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

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Wagner, Elisabeth (2006). "Selected Collections and Museums", in Nikolai Grube (ed.): Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, Eva Eggebrecht and Matthias Seidel (assistant eds.), Cologne, Germany: Könemann Press, pp.450–455. ISBN 978-3-8331-1957-6. OCLC 71165439.