Centro de Interpretación Ruta Don Vasco - 61609 Pátzcuaro

Nula información en un espacio con muchas posibilidades pero evidente despilfarro del erario. Dos burócratas haciendo tiempo sin la mínima intención de orientar al visitante.

Espacio excelente para todo tipo de eventos , instalaciones muy buenas y ubicación extraordinaria !

Se supone que el horario es de martes a domingo de 9 a 17 hrs. Es domingo y está cerrado. Qué pena! Me da la impresión que ya no está funcionando porque la reja principal tiene muchas telarañas.

Muy bonito lugar tiene áreas de mucho interés para niños y adultos presentaciones muy importante, al igual que el personal muy atento a cualquier duda. Lo recomiendo para la familia

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It was closed for maintenance on January 6

Great food. Very nice tourist lake area. Good hotels to stay and enjoy the people friendly area's. We you stay here you will enjoy a great time..

We visited this museum and were very pleasantly surprised how much we learned while there. There was only one person there when we walked in, and he told us they usually require 4 people minimum to turn everything on. It is a digital museum, so they have to power things up, including the air conditioning. We were the only people (2 of us) but agreed to pay for 4 people, which cost 250 pesos ($12.50 USD). It is located in an old former Porfirio Diaz-era train station (1887), on a road parallel to a main industrial road, and is not terribly well signed, but Google Maps got us there. There are many video explanations, in Spanish, some with English subtitles. Other displays had a choice of languages, including Purepecha! There was a short overview of Don Vasco de Quiroga, who came to Mexico in 1531 at the age of 60-ish (his year of birth is uncertain). He lived to 95. He was sent by Charles V of Spain to rein in the excesses of Guzman, who enslaved the indigenous people. Don Vasco attempted to establish a society based on Thomas More's Utopia (1516), based on 3 tenets - health, education, and industry, and of course, overlying all was Catholicism. He established hospitals, schools, and encouraged different pueblos to focus on a craft, like pottery, or shoes, or copper. That tradition lives on today in Michoacan. The museum has good explanatory videos, good models of some key buildings like the church in Patzcuaro. There is a touch screen interactive display where you learn about food in Michoacan, and can "prepare" a dish like Sopa de Tarasca. There is a video tour of several important churches in the towns surrounding Lake Patzcuaro, a small troje (Purepecha house) with a video explaining how the houses were made. There is also a video showing how different things are made, today as they were 500 years ago - copper, guitars, pottery. The copper "demonstration" is cool with hologram workers (think Princess Leia's R2D2 display) heating and hammering copper. It all makes you appreciate how much effort and skill go into the things you find in the stalls along the road.