Desert Museum (Mexico)

The Museum of the Desert was inaugurated on 25 November 1999 by then-President Ernesto Zedillo and also the directors of the Amigos del Desierto de Coahuila foundation.

The project was intended to promote an ecological culture by showing the wealth of life and the evolution of species through time in an interactive way.

[3] Due to factors such as erosion, the different geological structures have made it simpler to discover fossils in the Mexican deserts which have helped to understand more about these forms of life.

It displays the traces of the evolution along the last 12,000 years, as during this period the biodiversity in this region witnessed mammoths, saber-toothed cats, short-faced bears and gomphotheres.

This interactive pavilion traces 70 million years backwards, showing the greater quantity of fauna through a biodome.