Museo del Enervante

The Museo del Enervante is a Mexican museum. It is also known popularly as the Narco Museo,{{cite web|url=http://wn.com/narco_museo |title=Narco Museo |publisher=Wn.com |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}} Museo del Narco{{cite web|url=http://marcianosmx.com/el-museo-del-narco/ |title=El museo del narco – Marcianos |publisher=Marcianosmx.com |date= 25 January 2010|accessdate=2015-06-25}} and other nicknames. It is also known, officially, as Museo del Enervantes de la Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional{{cite web|url=http://www.sedena.gob.mx/leytrans/petic/2004/mar/09032004.html |title=Ley de Transparencia |publisher=Sedena.gob.mx |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}} (Sedena).

History

The museum was established in 1985.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/01/13/GA2010011304246.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212234254/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/01/13/GA2010011304246.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-02-12 |title=Mexican museum details the real enemy: drug cartels |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=2010-01-13 |accessdate=2015-06-25}}

Displays

The museum offers different displays of artifacts that belonged to notorious Mexican drug traffickers, and to Jesus Malverde, the so-called "saint of Mexican drug dealers".{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.elsiglodedurango.com.mx/noticia/186121.html |title=Museo del Enervante, historia del narco |publisher=Elsiglodedurango.com.mx |date=2008-10-21 |accessdate=2015-06-25}}

There is a dissected body of a dog named "Zuyaqui", who in life was the dog that detected the most drugs in Mexican Military history; and items belonging to Daniel Perez Rojas, Benjamin Arellano Felix and Javier Torres Felix, among others.{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/america/2010/01/08/mexico/1262945431.html |title=El museo del narco mexicano | México |publisher=Elmundo.es |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}}

Other information

The museum is located at Lomas de Sotelo, Mexico City, but it is not open to the public.{{cite web|url=http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/4336896/Museo-del-Enervante.html |title=Museo del Enervante |publisher=Taringa.net |date=2010-01-08 |accessdate=2015-06-25}} Only military personnel and certain students are allowed to visit.

References

Category:1985 establishments in Mexico

Category:Museums established in 1985

Category:Museums in Mexico City

Category:Drug culture