It's based on the true story of the 1985 Christmas Eve robbery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and follows two veterinary students, Juan Núñez (Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris), as they commit the heist, stealing precious Mayan, Mixtec, and Zapotec artifacts, and its aftermath.

[4] The film opens with a flashback of five-year-old Juan Núñez visiting the Tlaloc monolith at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, which his father told him was taken from its original home in San Miguel Coatlinchán.

In present day, we see an adult Juan (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Benjamín Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris), who are both veterinary students.

He causes a fallout by exposing the hidden Christmas presents to one of the young relatives and insinuating that Santa doesn't exist.

Bosco is unwilling to help at first, but eventually relents and offers to connect them with a rich American collector named Mr. Graves (Simon Russell Beale).

He goes to a bar that is supposed to be owned by Soto called Heaven's Gates where he recognizes one of the dancers, Eugenia, also known as Scherezada, a former film star.

The website's consensus reads: "Museum (Museo) approaches familiar genre territory from a refreshing new perspective that's as exciting visually as it is narratively.

"[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".