hotel posada de don rodrigo museum

They have a great private collection of Mayan ceramics found in the botton of the lake, its unexpensive and totally worth a visit

Located in a nice hotel at the shore, there are two small museums here. One for which you need to remove your shoes is about underwater exploration in the lake and the other for which you can wear your shoes is about the lake formation and has information about different types of volcanoes and lava flow. Information is interesting, underwater exhibit is unique and co-sponsored by National Geographic

Limited but interesting.. I will be searching for more information online when I return home and have more time to devote to the subject.

Great food, local, well made and great customer service.Marimba music live on sundays, rose garden and Gallo beer.Great place to relax and enjoy sopa de gallina.Cheers!

If you are in Panajachel for longer than a day, this is an excellent place to learn how the lake was formed -- there is a series of illustrations covering significant wall space at the beginning of the tour. The artifacts are displayed in half-light, which adds to the feeling of underwater --- and also makes it a bit harder to see details. I wish there had been more signage --- there were some pieces that looked mysterious and one couldn't guess their purpose or age. But it was heartening to learn about the international cooperation in studying the site, both geophysically and anthropologically. It's all in the museum. Just two or three rooms - but a half hour (or more) well spent if you like to reflect on history.

It is so admirable that this man find all this treasures under the lake that had been there for centuries, and now it is a museum. It was amazing to see every peace it make me think!!!.

They have done a wonderful job of displaying and explaining the history in and around Lake Atitlan. It takes about 30-60 minutes to explore...more if you read every bit of information.

While most-definitely NOT a must-see, it is a nice place to gather a little back story of the area. The museum contains a small selection of ancient artifacts recovered from the bottom of Atitlan, but there's barely any real information regarding most of them. There's a relatively new museum room in which you enter a "undersea" area (which is only by their definition, by the way, it's nothing more than another room) that contains some more artifacts and some pictures on the walls.Over all, as a museum it is very underwhelming since there's not much to see and not much to learn from. It is, however, not overly pricy so if you wouldn't miss much by going.

This is a small museum located at the hotel La Posada de Don Rodrigo, Panajachel, Lake Atitlan. It is an interesting stroll by the various potteries, many of them discovered underwater in the lake. It was amazing that they were able to piece together these artifacts. Descriptions were in Spanish with English sub-texts which were sometimes difficult to read, that is, in small print. Or, maybe I need glasses?

Too expensive for us to stay here but grounds are beautiful and we did go to the museum which gave a nice recap of how the lake was formed.

At 35Q per person, I found the exhibit (the Museo Lacustre Atitlán) to be underwhelming. Not many pictures and lots of text to read. The collection of ancient artifacts recovered from the lake are interesting, but there is little explanation about them so it was kind of lost on me. Staff was attentive and friendly. They offered us a museum guide, which was basically a gal who walked us through the three rooms pointing out the exhibits and waiting for us to finish reading the displays...awk. Had hoped for more insight there. We also saw an adjacent exhibit about a city submerged in the lake. It's designed to feel like you're underwater. "A" for effort but not that great in the end. If you like ancient artifacts, this may be of interest but otherwise I would say learn the history elsewhere and skip this rather pricey exhibit.

A good, small museum that explains some of the development of the surrounding communities and the local (interesting) geography of the lake and volcanos. Bi lingual and accessible to non Spanish readers.

The museum gives an overview of the volcanoes and the volcanic activity and some of the artefacts retrieved from the lake, its free visit if you are staying in the hotel.

Our guide took us here after a lake tour. The view from the upper deck was perfect. The food was served promptly, the server was friendly, no one became ill, good portion size. Again, I am no foodie, so this was just fine.

There is a cost to enter this museum,It takes about 30 minutes to see the old pottery pieces. Some interesting history.