When you visit Central Mexico and cities along the Gulf Coast you will enjoy beautiful natural surroundings, a great climate, along with rich historical sites and museums. The cities in this area feature some excellent institutions that will enable you to appreciate Mexican art and Mexican history.

Some notable museums in the capital:

• National Museum of Anthropology (one of the world's great museums)
• Frida Kahlo Museum 
• National Museum of Art
• Franz Mayer Museum (decorative arts)
• Museum of History, Chapultepec
  
• Museum of Folk Art
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Guadalajara is also full of great museums:

• Museo de la Ciudad
• Institute Cultural Cabanas
• University of Guadalajara Museum of Art

Some of the top places to visit in Veracruz:

• Museo Historico Naval
• Fortress of Santiago
• Fort of San Juan Ulua

San Luis Potosi  has some fine museums:

• Casa de la Cultura (art & culture museum)
• Museo del Centro Taurino Potosino (bull fighting museum)
• Museo Regional
• Museo National de la Mascara (mask museum)

Cuernavaca:

• MUROS (Mexican art of the 20th and 21st century)
• Cortes's palace
• Brady Museum

Guanajuato:

• Diego Rivera's birthplace
• Museum of the "Mummies"
• Alhóndiga de Granaditas
  

 Zacatecas:

• Mask Museum (Museo Rafael Coronel)
  

Oaxaca:

• Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
• Contemporary Art Museum
• Graphics Museum

Aguascalientes:

• Home of Posada, the naive woodcut artist who influenced Rivera etc.
  

Jalapa:

• Anthropology Museum (second only to the one in Mexico City)
  

Be sure to visit Mexico's online tourist guide for more museums and attractions in your destination city in Central Mexico and the Gulf Coast.