INAH Museums Network

6 Museums
Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca
Regional
With its adjoining monastery, the church is considered one of the finest Baroque gems of the viceregal period. Both were built by the Dominicans with indigenous labor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The museum has fine examples of the pre-Hispanic, religious, romantic and contemporary art of Oaxaca. There is also an important ethnobotanical garden, an old library and a newspaper and periodicals library.
Oaxaca
Museos
415
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415
Museo de Sitio Casa Juárez
Historic place
The house where Don Benito Juárez lived when he came to Guelatao, under the tutelage of Antonio Salanueva, and where he started as a servant, progressing to apprentice bookbinder, attorney and eventually governor. The museum brings together documents and personal objects about the great Mexican statesman, telling the story of the Reform War, the French intervention and the triumph of the Republic.
Oaxaca
Museos
462
462
Museo de Sitio de Bocana del Río Copalita
Archeological site
The Mixtec Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw ruled over a vast area of the present-day coast of Oaxaca. His memory is preserved in this museum, close to Huatulco. The displays features terracotta figures dating back 2,500 years, pounders for making amate paper, polychrome pottery, green stone objects and much more.
Oaxaca
Museos
423
No
423
Museo de Sitio de Monte Albán
Archeological site
The incomparable city of the Olmec, Zapotec and Mixtec peoples, inhabited over a period of 1500 years. Monte Albán occupied a mountain top, and is where the treasure of Tomb 7 was found. The site museum presents its evolution and the extent of its rich culture. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Oaxaca
Museos
438
No
438
Museo del Ex Convento de Yanhuitlán
Local
This was an important trading center both before and after the Conquest. With the construction of the Dominican convent (finished in 1575) it maintained this character as well as being an important center for evangelization. A notable collection of both religious and civic objects from the colonial period.
Oaxaca
Museos
495
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495
Sala Homenaje a Juárez
Local
The gallery in Guelatao, the Zapotec village where President Juárez was born, tells the story of his life with a selection of personal possessions, biographical and historical materials relating to the difficult period of Mexican history in which he lived.
Oaxaca
Museos
504
504

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