Museo Franz Mayer (Franz Mayer Museum)
The building that houses the Franz Mayer viceregal Collection is itself to work of art from the period. Built in the annoys sixteenth century to store and supply grains, the structure was originally named House of Peso of the Flour. The Museum Franz Mayer is the result of the vocation collector and the filantrópica mentality of a Mexican born in Germany and whose name takes the institution.
Franz Mayer made one of the first acts of donation on great scale in Mexico with the purpose of creating a museum, putting an example of communitarian responsibility. The objects that reunited throughout their life, dedicated with passion to the collecting, show a defendant sensitivity and good pleasure; the origin of many of them reveals the preoccupation that it had to recover for Mexico pieces that by diverse circumstances were abroad. When contemplating the pieces that collected are evident their clear direction towards the applied arts, without damage of the important acquisitions that did in the field of the painting. By this, when gliding the museum was decided to give the approach him of “a museum of art with emphasis in the applied arts".
In 1582, there am purchased the House of the weight of the flour and transformed it into to hospice. It was renamed Hospital of Our Lady of the Abandoned ones. After Pedro López’s death, his is Guiseppe inherited the hospital. In 1604 the viceroy of Montesclaros, with the approval of Jusepe Lopez, gave the building to monks from the to order of San Juan de God. The building was renamed to Hospital of San Juan de God. Medical The monks remodeled and enlarged the building to meet the increased demands for care.
Franz Mayer Museum (Museo Franz Mayer) : Mexico City
Alameda Central [Historic District] : Mexico City
Alameda Central is a downtown oasis of greenery, fountains and statuary. The imposing Palacio de Bellas Artes, a performing arts venue and a must-see for its art-deco interior, is next to the park. In the part of the Centro Historico between Alameda Central and the Zocalo are several impressive buildings and museums, including the Palacio de Iturbide (an Italian baroque palace), Casa de Azulejos (the House of Tiles), the Correo Central (the lovely main post office), the Museo Nacional de Arte (a grand building with Mexican art exhibits) and Museo de Franz Mayer (religious
Museo Nacional de la Revolución
The Museum of the Revolution offers an excellent opportunity to us to approach to us up to one of the more important historical times of this country. By means of objects and biographies of its main protagonists, one of the most violent and bloody times recreates to which the country must some of the most important profits of its last time. A visit to the museum can be an excellent departure point to enter to us in the study of this important political event. The videos that project in several spaces of the museum constitute very
Museo Nacional de Arte (National Art Museum)
This museum is located opposite to the Palacio de Mineria, near the main post office. It was built in 1904 and designed by Italian Architect, Silvio Contri, as the Palacio de Comunicaciones. The building has a magnificent staircase made by the Florentine firm Pignone. It houses and great collection of Mexican paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, during the 16th century to 1950. It has the largest number of paintings (more than 100) by Jose Maria Velasco in Mexico City.
Museo Nacional de la Estampa (Museum of Engraving)
Displays include those from pre-Hispanic times, when clay seals were used for designs on fabrics, ceramics, and other surfaces. But the most famous works here are probably those of José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico's famous printmaker, who poked fun at death and politicians through his skeleton figure drawings.
Oaxaca Regional Museum (Museo Regional de Oaxaca): Oaxaca
The Oaxaca Regional Museum is located inside the enchanting exconvent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Some of its recently redesigned rooms contain important samples of prehispanic and colonial history and culture. It is housed in a beautiful green stone building attached to Santo Domingo Church. It contains the Zapotec treasures from Tomb Seven at Monte Albán. This and other archaeological sections make the most sense if you visit them after seeing some sites in the Central Valleys.
Hours: The museum is generally open from 10 am. to 8 pm., Tuesday to Sunday. Entry
Wax Museum (Museo de Cera): Guadalajara
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Museo de la Ciudad de México
This beautiful virreinal residence exposes in its twenty-seven rooms the evolution of the city of Mexico, magna metropolis, from the mexicas to the present time. Founded on 1960, the Museum of the City of Mexico has the vocation to approach the visitor to the past and the cultural present of the city of Mexico; this is through the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, educative and interactive publications and programs.
Located in the heart of the Mexican capital in a sumptuous colonial residence of the century XVIII, the one that outside the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya,
The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. It stands on the banks of the RÃo Aguascalientes, 1888 metres above sea level, at 21°51′ N 102°18′ W.
The city was founded on 22 October 1575 and elevated to city status in 1816. It became the capital of the newly formed state when it was split off from neighbouring Zacatecas in 1835.
People from Aguascalientes (both the city and the state) are known by the whimsical Spanish demonym hidrocálidos.
The city is home to the first-division football team, Necaxa. Aguascalientes also organises the largest fair held
Museo Rufino Tamayo (Museum) : Mexico City
