Sculpture Museum of Copán

The Mayan Sculpture Museum is a museum dedicated to the Mayan culture in the town of Copan Ruinas, very close to the archaeological site of the same name in Honduras. The installations preserve various figures, sculptures, engravings, and original parts of the temples within them.

Among its exhibits stands out the impressive life-size replica of the Rosalila Temple, also known as the Temple of the Sun, discovered under structure 16 in perfect condition. It also houses the original Altar Q and Stelae A, P and 2. In addition to figures of beings that are part of Mayan mythology, such as Chaac or Camazotz, the collection includes original parts of temples reassembled within the museum, as well as calendars and engravings.

Museum entrance.
Walking towards the museum entrance.

The museum was built in 1993, as part of the tourist attraction of the archaeological site and to preserve many of the sculptures found in and around Copan. The museum wanted to have a considerable size to be able to house the enormous collection of archaeological pieces, in addition to having an open design so that it can have a guaranteed entry of natural light, since when it was built the town did not have many sources of electricity.
When the building was finished, It was designed to house more than 3,000 pieces of sculpture distributed in 59 exhibits; Inside, a series of sculptures that have been rescued from the archaeological site are exhibited. The huge building comprises about 4,000 square meters of construction on two levels (most of them are underground).it was filled with stelae and pieces of sculpture of deities from the Mayan pateon such that were found scattered throughout the site.

Rosalila Temple and Stela P.
The scale replica of the Rosalila Temple, in front of Stela P.

Façade of temple from Rastrojón.
Replica of the façade of a temple found in Rastrojón that shows the effigy of the twelfth ruler of Copán in the mouth of a puma and allegorical restored pieces of warriors found in Río Amarillo.

Rastrojón is a Maya archaeological site in western Honduras. It appears to be associated with the major Classical period city of Copán ― the capital of a Maya kingdom that existed from 5th to 9th centuries CE ― situated just 2 km (1.2 mi) away.
Rastrojón was abandoned following the collapse of the Copán kingdom in 822; the site was constructed on top of a geological fault that made building difficult, so it may be that the inhabitants judged the location not worth the effort after the fall of the nearby royal centre.
See more at Rastrojón - Wikipedia.

Statue of Camazotz.
In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language.

In Mesoamerica generally, the bat is often associated with night, death, and sacrifice.
See more at Camazotz - Wikipedia.

Chaac sculpture.
Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lighting.

With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs.
See more at Chaac - Wikipedia.

The facade of the first ballcourt.

Ballcourt decoration.
A replica of an architectural decoration from the Mayan ballcourt of Copan.

It represents the god Seven Macaw (Vucub-Caquix) who was killed by the Hero Twins in Book II of the Popol Vuh.
Vucub-Caquix (possibly meaning 'seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of a Kʼicheʼ-Mayan myth preserved in an 18th-century document, entitled ʼPopol Vuhʼ.
The episode of the demon's defeat was already known in the Late Preclassic Period, before the year 200 AD. He was also the father of Zipacna, an underworld demon deity, and Cabrakan, the Earthquake God.
See more at Vucub Caquix - Wikipedia.

The Scribe's House.
Las Sepulturas, Plaza A, Structure 82 (a.k.a. House of the Bacabs). This is a reconstruction of the Scibe's House. The carved stones are original, recovered from the archaeological site.

The Scribe's House (Casa del Escribano) in the Sepulturas group, built in 780 CE, is an elegant mansion occupied by a prominent resident of Copán. It features a number of carved stone reliefs and a magnificent carved hieroglyphic bench (in view here).
The building also is referred to as the House of the Bacabs. In Mayan mythology, the bacabs were four gods, thought to be brothers, who supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the compass.
Bacab is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. The Bacabs are also referred to as Pauahtuns.
See more at Bacab - Wikipedia.