The museum is really pretty and interesting. It's not huge, but it gives you a good sense of the variety of styles and how the weaving is done. There are a few videos to watch before you walk through. You can buy a joint ticket...More

If you like handmade textiles, this is the place to visit in Guatemala City. You will learn alot about textiles, he materials use, how they are produce and how they have change thought the time. Parking lot available, safe to walk around.

What an amazing collection of textiles- past and present. They were beautifully displayed and set up so that you got a beautiful historic representation of the Mayan textiles through the years. This is not a very big museum but it is well organized and the...More

Museo Ixchel has an amazing collection, displayed with everything from the archeological tools, materials, and historical developments and changes through modern adaptations and changes in Mayan textiles. I especially loved the exhibition on cofradías, but also the sections on past and present. It is dark...More

Although we did not spend to much time, we could appreciate the very important exhibitions of the textil art of the Mayas. The materials used and the colors makes it a wonderful show.

I came for an artist exhibit and got a free entrance. They have videos on Mayan clothing. A great collection of cloth piecesall Mayan groups in Guatemala. Parking is expensive.

This museum is interesting, but not as much as Popol Vuh. It is all about textiles in the Mayan times and nowadays. I was a little bit disappointed as I was expecting a lot of beautiful and colorful textiles. There was some and it was...More

There was a great medium sized exhibition on the Mayan Textiles. We spent an hour just looking and reading about the differences. We then went to the Po pov Museo. Both are great exhibitions.

This museum is colourful and beautiful with a big exhibition of textiles that's used by the Mayan's. It also has a good collection of Carmen L. Pettersen's beautiful paintings of the traditional dresses that was, and still is, worn by the Guatemalan's.

Guatemala still has one of the most impressive indigenous textile cultures in the world. If you are at all into textiles or Mayan culture, Museo Ixchel has a lot to offer. The color for which Guatemala is so famous - textiles are the primary the...More