Chetumal’s Mega Sculpture Remains Closed with No Reopening Date

Chetumal, Quintana Roo — Despite briefly attracting attention and registering thousands of visits from local residents as well as national and foreign tourists, the Immersive Room of Chetumal’s Mega Sculpture has been closed since early 2024 due to maintenance and technical failures and has since remained abandoned.

Although there were announcements of investment for repairs, primarily in the air conditioning system, and it was assured that it would resume operation once the work was completed, currently there is no defined date for its reopening, stated the Deputy Director of Planning for the State Tourism Secretariat, Omar Govea Hernández, who also said that the property has been handed over to the Agepro.

“Work was done at the time precisely on everything related to the structure and operation, but we no longer have knowledge on this topic because it is now handled directly by the Agepro; the infrastructure was handed over to the agency and all operational aspects now fall under their purview to oversee. The handover was made last year,” said Govea Hernández.

Just last year, before the end of 2025, the Secretariat of Tourism had reported that it was analyzing carrying out maintenance work on the structure after registering concerning deterioration from salt spray, with the goal of rescuing the work and making it functional to turn it into a new tourist attraction for the state capital. However, everything remained promises and the project continues in oblivion, especially now that it has been completely disassociated.

With several proposals for its recovery, such as a viewpoint with an elevator, a museum, an aquarium, installing dancing fountains, and other cultural attractions, this space was even considered to house offices of the Federal Secretariat of Tourism during the previous administration. Instead, it has been opted to rent the exterior areas for official events or exhibitions, which has only contributed to its deterioration.

In 2026, the Mega Sculpture, whose construction began in 2003 during the government of Joaquín Hendricks Díaz, will be 23 years old and has had a multi-million peso investment of around 500 million pesos, limiting it to being merely a white elephant due to the lack of a solid utilization plan, even in the long term.