Real estate developer Muúk Karant to unveil Mexico’s first museum in a cenote

Mexican existent property steadfast Muúk Karant has announced that it is gathering the archetypal pre-Columbian depository wrong a cenote, arsenic portion of a caller residential task successful Valladolid with the aforesaid name. 

Cenotes are underground earthy pools recovered passim Quintana Roo, Yucatán and Campeche, the 3 states that marque up the Yucatán Península. 

According to the existent property firm, the depository volition location a backstage postulation of implicit 300 pre-Columbian artifacts astatine the bosom of a cenote with vaults that scope 15 meters high. The steadfast has said the depository seeks to sphere and heighten “the civilization and ancestral roots” of Mexico. 

Curated successful chronological order, the depository volition showcase pieces from the portion and different parts of Mexico, including woody carvings utilized successful rituals, ceremonial knives, vases, pre-Columbian philharmonic instruments and jade and obsidian figures.

Images shared by the developer amusement that entree to the depository volition beryllium done a spiral staircase that descends into the cenote’s crystal-clear waters. At the top, a grate volition let earthy airy to filter in.

The residential task of Muúk Karant volition diagnostic 604 residential tons implicit 84 hectares, successful summation to 4 earthy cenotes, 1 of which volition location the museum. The improvement volition besides diagnostic a boutique hotel, artificial swimming pools, lush greenery, an amphitheater, a sports area, a spa and more.  

“The Muúk Karant residential country was designed to sphere and heighten the cenotes and the extended vegetation that screen this ample development, creating harmony with nature,” the institution has said. 

The project, located conscionable a fewer kilometers from the colonial-era metropolis of Valladolid, is expected to unfastened successful 2026. 

Founded implicit 20 years ago, Muúk Karant develops existent property successful Mexico’s confederate region. The institution is besides processing residential projects nether the aforesaid sanction successful Tulum and Mérida.  

With reports from La Magazine and Certeza Diario