A modernist architectural masterpiece and the city's finest museum, the National Museum of Anthropology in Chapultepec brings Mexico's history and ethnography to life. The display on the Spanish conquest is especially fascinating, and there's lots of information in English.
Mexico's incredibly rich indigenous culture (the Aztec and Maya being the most famous) means this museum is now one of the best places in the world to find out about it. With its archaeological and ethnographic heritage, the museum brings the story of pre-Columbian middle America right up to the end of the last century.
Exhibits include interactive displays; reconstructions of Tlatelolco's flea market in the Aztecs' gallery, Quetzalcóatl's Pyramid in Teotihuacán gallery, and Palenque and Monte Alban's tombs in the Maya and Cultures of Oaxaca's galleries, amongst others.