La Constancia Museum Complex

La Constancia Mexicana is a historic textile factory complex in Puebla, originally established on January 7, 1835. It was the nation's first mechanized cotton spinning and weaving mill.

The factory was built inside an old mill estate called Santo Domingo Hacienda that ground wheat into flour. The buildings of the hacienda were updated to take on the style of the 1800s which gave the factory a very unique and special look.

Located along the Atoyac River, the factory harnessed water power from the river to drive its machinery and it operated continuously until its closure on September 11, 1991.

After closing, the facility was preserved as a historical site and converted into a complex of museums that honours its industrial legacy.

We took a half hour ride with Uber or Didi to get to this museum complex as it was on the outskirts of the city.

So what museums are there? I believe that there are seven altogether but we visited the five below.

1. Museo Textil (Textile Museum) that displays historic machinery, including 19th-century English looms and exhibits illustrating the history of textile production in the region.

2. Museo Infantil (Children's Museum) that is an interactive space focusing on science, technology, and natural phenomena.

3. Museo de la Música Mexicana (History of Mexican Music Museum) that traces the evolution of music in Mexico from pre Hispanic times to the classical Mexican musical traditions during the viceroyalty to the present day.

4. Casa del Titere (House of Puppets) that has displays of the historical development of puppets in the world and in Mexico

5. El Paseo de Los Gigantes (Walk of the Giants) that is a collection of 50 miniature famous architectural wonders.

6. Museo de Automovil that features Volkswagens. We didn’t have time to visit that one

The next footprints will go into more detail about two of the museums - the Puppet Museum and the walk of the Giants.

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