Museo Nacional de Antropología
Mexico City
22 permanent halls, one of them for the Maya, and the national library of anthropology (INAH, Lugares INAH).
Collections
Museums and archives with Maya art, objects, books, and photographs. A few are visited. The rest wait for a visit.
Mexico
Na Bolom
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Visited 2007. A place to stay on a return trip.
The house museum of Frans Blom and Gertrude Duby Blom (Palka, 1998/2015). Its photograph collections were surveyed in 2020 (Hernández Rochín, 2020). Founding date to verify.
Museo Regional de Antropología de Yucatán, Palacio Cantón
Mérida, Yucatán
An INAH museum (INAH, Centro INAH Yucatán record).
Official page to find
Gran Museo del Mundo Maya
Mérida, Yucatán
A museum of the Maya world. Opening date to verify.
Official page to find
Guatemala
Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología (MUNAE)
Guatemala City
About 25,000 pieces (Monzón & Guerra, 2009, p. 245).
Official page to find
CIRMA
Antigua Guatemala
Antigua was home in 2007.
A research archive and library. Founded in 1978, with a photo archive from 1979 and a historical archive from 1997 (CIRMA).
Spain
Museo de América
Madrid
Page 23 of the codex appears on the tz'ihb page.
Home of the Madrid Codex (Museo de América).
United States
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, D.C.
A visit is planned.
A research library and museum with a Pre-Columbian collection. Justin Kerr's archive of more than 60,000 images came here in 2013 (Dumbarton Oaks).
Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
More than 4,000 items, among them over 400 Pre-Columbian objects, such as the Tortuguero Box and a ball player panel from La Corona (Library of Congress).
Peabody Museum, Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Home of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions since 1968 (Peabody Museum).
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A gallery for Mexico and Central America (Penn Museum).
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, New Jersey
The vase appears on the tz'ihb page.
The Princeton Vase, y1975-17 (Princeton University Art Museum).
Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Tulane
New Orleans, Louisiana
Frans Blom directed it from 1926. Visits need three weeks of notice (Tulane MARI).
Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, New Mexico History Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A research visit is planned, to see the Blom work.
The Gertrude Duby Blom and E. Winifred Pitkin Photograph Collection, PAAC-103. Blom took the photographs in 1959. One album is titled "A visit to the Maya ruins of TIKAL" and dates from January 7 to 14, 1959. Research visits by appointment (New Mexico History Museum finding aid).
Rubenstein Library, Duke
Durham, North Carolina
Her photographs from Najá and Monte Líbano were part of ANTH 345, Unit 2.
The Gertrude Duby Blom photographs, with 71 exhibit prints (Duke University Libraries).
Online
Mesoweb
Articles, reports, and photographs on the Maya and Mesoamerica.
FAMSI
The Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. Reports, drawings, and the Mathews site list.
FAMSI Maya Museum Database
A search of museums with Maya collections, by city and country.
Maya Vase Database
Justin Kerr's rollout photographs of Maya vessels. K772 is one.
Ancient Americas at LACMA
Objects from the Ancient Americas collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Links checked November 6, 2026.
Sources
- CIRMA. (n.d.). Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica. https://www.cirma.org.gt
- Duke University Libraries. (n.d.). Gertrude Duby Blom exhibit photographs and project records. Finding aid. https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/blomgertrude
- Dumbarton Oaks. (n.d.). Museum collections. https://www.doaks.org/visit/museum/collections
- Hernández Rochín, B. (2020). Asociación Cultural Na Bolom. Diagnóstico de colecciones fotográficas. Adabi de México. https://file.adabi.org.mx/recursos/publicaciones/diagnosticos/conservacion/20201118_asociacion_cultural_na_bolom.pdf
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- Monzón, C., & Guerra Ruiz, J. (2009). Tras la reja del museo. In J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, & H. Mejía (Eds.), XXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2008 (pp. 245–251). Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología. https://mesoweb.com/Simposio/pdf/22/Monzon_y_Guerra.2009.pdf
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- New Mexico History Museum. (2024). Gertrude Duby Blom and E. Winifred Pitkin photograph collection, PAAC-103. Finding aid. https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/20/resources/5095
- New Mexico History Museum. (n.d.). About the Photo Archives. https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/collections/photo-archives/about-photo-archives.html
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- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. (n.d.). About the Maya Corpus. https://peabody.harvard.edu/about-corpus-maya-hieroglyphic-inscriptions
- Penn Museum. (n.d.). Mexico and Central America gallery. https://penn.museum/on-view/galleries-exhibitions/mexico-central-america-gallery
- Princeton University Art Museum. (n.d.). Princeton Painter, Uk’ib (drinking cup) depicting a mythological scene, y1975-17. https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/32221
- Tulane University. (n.d.). Middle American Research Institute. https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/mari
Every source the site uses is also on the Sources page.