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Central America's largest museum of Mayan Culture to be built in Guatemala
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/01/30/museum-mayan-culture-guatemala-harry-gugger-overunder/Planned for the northern edge of L'Aurora Park, the Museo Maya de América will house a vast collection of historical artefacts from the Mayan regions of southern Mexico and northern Central America, within an all-new structure that draws on the architecture of traditional Mayan temples.
The stone-clad exterior of the building will be punctured by a series of openings that draw light and ventilation through to a succession of galleries and corridors, which will be laid out in a chequerboard-like pattern.
"At first glance, the building appears to be a contemporary expression of Maya architectural elements," said Harry Gugger. "It forms a monolithic box perched atop blocks of stone, as if floating above the ground. On closer inspection, a pattern of staggered stone screens is punctuated by over-scaled loggias that draw light into the building and offer glimpses inside," he added.
"The central court evokes the cenote, a type of natural sinkhole characteristic of the Yucatan and held sacred by the Maya," said over,under principal Roberto de Oliveira Castro. "Open to the sky and lushly planted, the eight-storey cenote functions as the heart of the museum, its displays, and its activities."
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it really represents the Mayan Culture. Mexico would be a nice place to visit. 
The city of Merida, the ruins of Chichen Itza and Uxmal, the food and the people are all remarkable. We we're there for Christmas a few years ago and went to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at the oldest cathedral in North America. Unforgettable.
How nice you both got to go there and I would of love to have gone to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve there.
It's sounds wonderful, the people, and surroundings...like you said, Unforgettable, indeed! 