El Museo de Múzquiz se constituyó en febrero de 2005, impulsado por aficionados a la paleontología con el objetivo de resguardar y custodiar el patrimonio paleontológico de la región de Múzquiz, Coahuila, además de constituirse en un vínculo entre los profesionales de la disciplina y la sociedad civil para el estudio y la difusión de los resultados más allá del ámbito académico. La colección incluye Bivalvia, Ammonoidea, Crustacea, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Mosasauridae y una copia del Muzquizoptery coahuilensis (Pterosauria), 63 son hipotipos y uno es un plastotipo. En 2008, la colección ingresa como bien patrimonial de la nación a través de su inscripción en el Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), con un total de 424 cédulas, de ellas 329 amparan 390 fósiles, aunque hoy en día el número de ejemplareses sustancialmente mayor.Así, el Museo de Múzquizes elcustodio oficialycoadyuvante delINAH en la protección de estepatrimonio.
Múzquiz Museum was established in February 2005, by paleontology amateurs aiming at protecting and guarding the paleontological heritage of the region of Múzquiz, Coahuila, in addition to become a link between professionals in the discipline and civil society for the study and dissemination of results beyond the academic arena. The collection includes Bivalvia, Ammonoidea, Crustacea, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Mosasauridae and a copy of Muzquizoptery coahuilensis (Pterosauria), c3 are hypotypes and one is a plastotype. In 2008, the collection entered as a heritage asset of the nation through its registration in the Public Registry of Monuments and Archaeological Areas of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)under the REG number. 1c80PJ, witha total of 424 IDs, 32S ofwhich contain 350 fossils. Thus, the Múzquiz Museum is theofficialcustodian and contributor to the INAH in theprotectionofthisheritage.
The first thing that greets the visitor to this site is a sculpture of a paleontologist finding a fossil. It is followed by a large mural with an extensive timeline: from the Big Bang, through the different eras to the appearance of man. Emphasis is placed on the Mesozoic Era – that of the dinosaurs – divided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The museum pieces correspond to the latter. Several fossils are emblematic of this place. The first is that of a Mosasaurus, the most ferocious marine reptile of its time, which dominated the seas of much of the world and fed on fish, ammonites and other marine reptiles. Another important vestige is the horn of an unidentified ceratopsid – a horned dinosaur. But it is perhaps the Muzquizopterix coahuilensis that brings the most identity to the museum and the city, since for years it has become an icon of the municipality's fossil finds. The piece exhibited in the museum is a replica, since the original is located in the Institute of Geology of the UNAM, in Mexico City. The Museum of Paleontology had the support of INAH for its museographic organization.