Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca designed the museum in 1964, and construction took nineteen months. The article names no client and gives no start or completion dates. Mathias Goeritz helped shape the interior, and Chávez Morado carved the decoration on the umbrella column.
Twenty-three exhibition rooms on two floors surround a central courtyard with a large pond. The site covers 857,890 square feet (79,700 m²). The article cites Maya ornamentation and pre-Hispanic building techniques, and names no style.
The courtyard's concrete roof, called the umbrella, rests on one slender column, and rain drains through an opening at the column. The article describes it as steel covered with wood and filled with reinforced concrete in one passage, and as reinforced concrete covered in aluminum in another. It reports 3.7 million visitors in 2024.
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