[2] In the 1970s, Leonel Sisniega Otero, director of the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism at the time, requested that paleontologists Roberto Woolfolk and Bryan Patterson recover archeological pieces.

In 1974, the museum opened for the first time in the presence of President Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.

[4] The museum contains archaeological collections made of lithic and ceramics, as well as fossils from Eastern Guatemala.

[3] Among the collection of fossils are the remains of armadillos, prehistoric horses, toxodonts, capybaras, sloths and mastodons.

[11] The museum also contains pottery, ceramics, necklaces and plates of the Mayan civilization found in the Motagua River basin and the southern coast of Guatemala.