Parque La Loma

Part of INAH system of museums in Mexico, has intriguing display of exhibits pertaining to topics like precolonial and natural history. The museum contains a large collection of pre-Hispanic art from the Shaft Tomb culture. The collection includes a large number of sculptures depicting humans engaged in normal daily activities, unlike the sculptures of most other indigenous cultures, which focused primarily on deities.

This city park has a memorial to the "hero boy" Juan Escutia. To the southwest across Av Ignacio Allende is the Alameda de Tepic where there is a small aviary.

Museum about indigenous cultures in a historic colonial building, right across from the regional museum.

For the art enthusiasts out there.

This is an interesting museum about the local boy hero who supposedly jumped off the Castle of Chapultepec wrapped in the Mexican flag rather than let the nasty American imperialists under General Winfield Scott take it, during the Battle of Chapultepec in 1847. All displays are captioned in Spanish only, but you may be able to ask for a tour in English.

Tepic's central square, with a monument and people selling handicrafts. A great place to watch activity go on in Tepic.