This museum was designed didactically to offer a better approach to the culture of Casas Grandes and show the complexity and richness of Paquimé as well as study in depth the historical-cultural and ecogeographic context of the desert cultures.

It was inaugurated in 1996 and has a great collection of more than two thousand pieces like megafauna fossils and ceramics from Paquimé, models of other places of the Desert Cultures and objects of the regional history like weapons and farming gadgets.