First museum at Mexico's World Heritage Site "Chichen Itza" opens to the public. The museum exhibits over 500 stone statues and furniture, about half of which are being shown to the.
public for the first time. Areas of the ruins that were previously closed to. the public will also be opened to the the public, allowing visitors to tour newly restored residences of influential people and. temples. The Mexican government has just opened a railway that crosses the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula, including Chichen Itzas.