Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande, Zihuatanejo

The Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande occupies a small waterfront building along Zihuatanejo's Paseo del Pescador and documents the pre-Hispanic and colonial history of Guerrero's Costa Grande region, the coastal strip stretching north from Acapulco Bay. Its collection includes archaeological finds recovered from sites around Zihuatanejo Bay, such as ceramics and stone tools left by the region's pre-Hispanic fishing and farming communities, alongside material illustrating the area's incorporation into colonial trade networks tied to the Pacific coast. Exhibits also address the Costa Grande's longstanding fishing traditions, connecting the pre-Hispanic archaeological record to fishing practices that continued into the colonial and modern periods in the same bay. The museum's galleries are organized in a single compact circuit rather than a large multi-wing layout, given the modest size of the building, with display cases arranged to move visitors from earliest archaeological material toward more recent colonial-era objects. As a municipally run institution rather than a major state or national museum, its restoration and upkeep have focused on maintaining the small waterfront building and updating display cases, with the collection's scope remaining tied specifically to the Costa Grande region rather than the state as a whole.