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Guanajuato Museums
Diego Rivera House Museum
This museum is located in a large eighteenth century house in which famous muralist Diego Rivera was born and lived. It boasts a collection of works from different stages of Rivera's artistic career, as well as temporary expositions. The museum also showcases original furniture from the end of the nineteenth century which belonged to the Rivera family.
Olga Costa-Jose Chavez Morado Art Museum
Located in what was formally the house of the two artists, this museum has a collection of oil paintings named by the artists "Mano con Mano", or "Hand in Hand", as well as a collection of furniture and various objects from them both. The museum building was donated by the Guanajuato State Government and inaugurated on April 2, 1993.
Museum of the People of Guanajuato (Museum del Pueblo de Guanajuato)
This museum is located in a seventeenth century building and exhibits art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, donated by the artists Jose Chavez Morado and Olga Costa. The museum continually holds temporary expositions. The building has a churrigueresque chapel that was defaced many years ago, probably in the nineteenth century. Today, this space serves as an auditorium, and is decorated with furniture donated by Jose Chavez Morado.
Ex-hacienda San Gabriel de Barrera
This is a hacienda from the eighteenth century with a large colonial house where paintings, furniture and tapestries from that period are on display. Its 17 gardens landscaped in various styles are also worthy of admiration. There is also a restoration workshop.
Alhondiga de Granaditas Regional Museum
This building is of great historical importance as it was the stage of the first major battle in the Mexican War of Independence. It houses important collections which trace the evolution of Mexico since the prehispanic period.
Alfredo Duges
Natural history museum located in the main building of the University of Guanajuato . It was founded in December of 1941 with the collection of animals, plants and fossils of Dr. Duges, professor of the State College in the nineteenth century.
Ex-hacienda del Cochero - Museum of the Inquisition
Located in a former hacienda which dates back to the seventeenth century, here visitors can see torture instruments used during the Inquisition.
The Mariana Gallery
The Mariana Gallery of the Collegiate Basilica of Our Lady of Guanajuato is a clear example of the new types of museum spaces which have been established in Mexico. On display are important pieces of sacred art from the viceroy period, the nineteenth century and the present. The rooms of the gallery themselves are fine examples of religious architecture in Guanajuato.
Seventeenth Century Guanajuato "On-Site" Museum (Museum del Sitio)
This on-site museum, in its first stages, shows the changes in ground level in the city of Guanajuato during the four and a half centuries since its founding. It also showcases the architectural style of religious constructions in the seventeenth century.
After the dramatic rise in ground level (caused by a flood), which coincided with the Decree of 1775, the first Convent of San Pedro de Alcántara remained buried for more than two-hundred years, until rescue and conservation efforts were begun in 1996.
Don Quijote Iconographic Museum (Museum Iconográfico del Quijote)
This museum was inaugurated in 1987 and houses a collection of paintings, prints, drawings, tapestries, coins, sculptures, and porcelain artwork dedicated to Don Quijote. Some of the works of art are true masterpieces, including pieces by Jose Luis Cuevas and Salvador Dali.
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