MUSEUMS
Oaxaca
City
has a wide variety of museums with an extensive collection of archaeological,
historical and artistic pieces from Oaxaca.
Among the most important are:
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Contemporary Art Museum)
? Located at 202 Macedonio Alcala,
north of the Historic Center. This legendary
building, which was allegedly inhabited
by conquistador Hernan Cortes, is
currently one of the most
important examples of civic architecture
during Oaxaca?s Viceregal
era.
Museo de las Culturas
de Oaxaca (Museum of Oaxacan Culture) ? Located inside
the Ex-Convent de Santo
Domingo de Guzman, on
Macedonio Alcala Street, at the corner of
Adolfo Gurrion. Part of the exhibit
at this museum
focuses on an important collection
of regional pre-Hispanic archaeological pieces. Archaeologist Alfonso
Caso found many of the objects
at Tumba 7 in Monte Alban. Open
Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 8:00.
Museo de Arte Prehispanico
Rufino Tamayo (Pre-Hispanic
Museum of Art) ? Located at 503 Avenida
Morelos, this museum houses an important collection
of nearly 1,000 pre-Hispanic objects that were collected over a 20-year period
by famed Oaxacan painter Rufino
Tamayo. Open Monday through Wednesday from 10:00 to 2:00 and 4:00 to 7:00, and Sunday
from 10:00
to 8:00.
Museo Casa de Juarez (Juarez Museum) ? Located at 609
6a. calle de Garcia Vigil.
In the rooms at this museum
you can see some of the
personal items of former Mexican President Benito Juarez, such as documents from the War
of Independence, the Reform movement
and the era of French intervention.
Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 to 7:00 and Sunday from
10:00 to 5:00.
Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo
(Photography Museum) ? Located
at 302 Murguia Street. In this 18th-century
house, you?ll find photo exhibits, retrospectives and a library that includes
the works of Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Open Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 8:00 and Saturday from
9:30 to 3:00.
Instituto de Artes
Graficas de Oaxaca (Oaxaca Graphic Arts Institute) ? Located
at 507 Macedonio Alcala. Donated
by painter Francisco Toledo, this graphic arts institute houses a collection of
renowned Mexican and international artists, such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Rufino
Tamayo and Alfredo Zalce,
among others. Open Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 8:00.
