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Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli

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Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli
Phone:
+52 55 5617 3797

Hours:
Sunday11am - 5:30pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday11am - 5:30pm
Thursday11am - 5:30pm
Friday11am - 5:30pm
Saturday11am - 5:30pm


The Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli or simply Anahuacalli Museum is a museum located in Coyoacán, in the south of Mexico City. The unique museum was conceived and created by muralist, Diego Rivera, who, motivated by his own interest in Mexican culture, collected nearly 50,000 pre-Hispanic pieces during his life, and projected a building to place and exhibit them. Rivera and his wife, the painter, Frida Kahlo, intended to build two museums as a legacy for Mexico. The house that he and Kahlo lived in, known as La Casa Azul now houses the Frida Kahlo Museum and is located 3.1 miles away, in the heart of the former village of Coyoacán. The Anahuacalli was completed after Rivera's death by architects, Juan O'Gorman and Heriberto Pagelson as well as Rivera's daughter, Ruth. In addition, the twin home-studios that O'Gorman designed for the couple, in nearby San Angel, has also become a museum, the House Museum Study Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.The Anahuacalli is built of black volcanic stone . It takes the form of a pyramid. The museum items are collected from almost every indigenous civilization in Mexico's history. On the second floor, there is an exhibition room dedicated to the life and works of Rivera, as well as an observation deck. The word Anahuacalli literally means house of Anahuac in Nahuatl.
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