A private museum, open only to government officials, visiting diplomats, graduating army cadets, and occasionally journalists, opened in 1985 in Mexico City.  The museum was originally a small room with a couple display cases, but now its curators are struggling with even a lot of spacious to rooms,  they are in need of more space to exhibit all the contraband they would like to showcase. 

Some of the samples of various drugs they have on display include : marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine-all in glass flasks with appropraite inscriptions.

Below is a 3-D map that  shows illuminated arrows indicating the directions of drug trafficking from the south toward the United States:

Army Captain Claudio Montane, a museum curator, shows a large mural depicting the war on drugs at the entrance to the Museum of Drugs in Mexico City.

One of the displays at the museum shows how marijuana is muggled inside a surfboard.

Memoprialized in the museum is narcotics-detecting German Shepherd by the name of Zayaqui who died in 2008.  He was responsible for finding more than 8,000 of marijuana and other drugs.

This display is an example of how drugs are smuggled in food and soda cans:

A variety of guns seized from cartel members are arranged in a display case.  The center gun is etched with marijuana and poppy plants:

One 9mm browning pistol has the diamond-encrusted initials of LMJ:

Next to the row of glass encased seized weaponry displays a mannequin depicting a member of the cartel:

Also on display is a diorama that shows how the military and police help catch drug smugglers.  Mexican forces have confiscated over 443 airplanes, 14,622 vehicles and 43,118 weapons, including grenade launchers and bazookas.  Claudio Montane also stated that they haves seized $113,990,520 in cash.

Notice the frame of the Virgin of Guadalupe where drugs were hidden.  Nine of these religious painting with tweeked frames were found during a revision of a passenger bus Sonora, Mexico.  A total of 110 pounds of marijuana were found:

One section of the museum educates visitors about the connection between particular religions and drug trafficking.   Enshrined in the exhibit is a small bust of Jesus Malverde also referred to as a “Robin Hood” for the poor and revered as a patron saint of traffickers.  Malverde, a highwayman, as legend has it was killed by authorites in 1909.

Bewtween 1976 to 2009, 636 Mexican forces died in battles with cartel - 133 in the past 3 years. 

Another mannequin depicts a grower in a life-size diorama of the countryside guarding his crops.  During the tour a cassette player begins a narco-corrida, popular ballads honoring the drug outlaws.

In another diorama a military helicopter is showed killing plants in a remote marijuana field.

A device that aids in drying marijuana after it has been cropped was found during a police raid and is currently exhibited at the museum.

Displayed at a booth are various smoking devices-bongs, hookahs, vaporizors, etc. “The idea is to show the history pf the drug, various mathods of cooking and smoking, our operations and efforts to stop the stem the spread of harmful substances, as well as lifestyles of drug traffickers, the social phenomenom of narco-culture”, said a museum curator.