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Textile Museum "Local Culture & Textile Art"

Also called MTO, this museum showcases a wide range of designs, techniques and creative processes used to produce textiles in Oaxaca as well as other parts of the world. The museum encourages the constant exchange of knowledge about these processes and products by holding conferences, workshops and exhibitions. by Alexandre Dulaunoy +52 951 501 1617 www.museotextildeoaxaca.org.mx 917 Hidalgo, Oaxaca

Cultural Center of Oaxaca "Treasures From All Over Oaxaca"

The Oaxaca Cultural Center museum (Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca) is adjacent to the Templo de Santo Domingo, in the former convent section of the building. Visitors enter into a spacious courtyard, from which you will be led to the Biblioteca (Library) de Francisco Burgoa, featuring an impressive collection of centuries old works. Upstairs, rooms feature by Henry Merino treasures excavated from various archaeological sites of the region, including impressive rooms full of artifacts recovered from Monte Albán. This museum is one of the most comprehensive histories of Oaxaca you will find in the entire state. The museum also features an ethnobotanical garden, which visitors can only visit on a guided tour.

+52 951 516 2991 Macedonio Alcalá, At Adolfo Gurrión, Iglesia de Santo Domingo,

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca (MACO)

"Artists from All Over Mexico"

The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, located in the historic center of the city is housed in an 18th-century building known as the Casa de Cortés. The building is fabled to have been the home of the famous by Fernando Tapia Rodríguez Conquistador Hernan Cortés in Oaxaca, although history shows the building was constructed too late for this to be true. Regardless, the museum now housed here features modern artists from Oaxaca and all around Mexico. Exhibitions include ceramics, sculpture, photography, paintings and more. There are also various temporary exhibitions.

+52 951 514 1055 [email protected] 202 Macedonio Alcalá, Oaxaca City by Urban Girl Oaxacan Painter Museum "From Cabrera to Morales"

Housed in a 17th-century building which has gone through many incarnations, the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños exhibits works from, you guessed it, Oaxacan painters. Works range from 18th -entury paintings by Miguel Cabrera to works by beloved painter Rodolfo Morales. The revolving exhibitions feature all kinds of paintings, from realism to religious works, to erotic, indigenous and abstract. Also located on the first floor of the building is a tourist information desk, as the entire building was a tourist information office before it was the museum.

+52 951 516 5645 607 Independencia, Oaxaca City

Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre- Hispanic Art "Beloved Artist's Personal Pre-Hispanic Art Collection"

Despite its name, the Museo does not house works by this most famous Zapotec artists, but instead does house his personal by Arturo de Albornoz collection of Pre-Hispanic art and artifacts. Unique from other archaeology museums, the Museo Rufino Tamayo organizes the works by their aesthetic qualities instead of its chronology in order to appreciate the artisanship. Tamayo himself designed the museum, and it is definitely worth a visit. Guided tours of the museum are offered on Wednesdays.

+52 951 516 4750 503 Morelos, Oaxaca City

Museo Casa de Juárez

"Benito Juárez's CIty Home"

The Casa de Juárez is a restored home that belonged to bookmaker Father Antonio Salanueva, Benito Juárez's childhood benefactor. It was here that Juárez lived during his youth in Oaxaca City, and where Salanueva helped Juárez get an education and become a lawyer. Aside from being the former home of one of Mexico's most beloved presidents, by Christopher William Adach the Casa de Juárez is a good example of what life may have been like for the middle classes and their employees in Oaxaca at this time.

+52 951 516 1860 609 García Vigil, Oaxaca City

Monte Alban "Zapotec Legacy"

Wedged between stark elemental features – blue skies and an ochre, parched terra – Monte Albán sits on a flattened promontory, exemplifying nearly 1500 years of pre-Columbian civilization. Monte Albán rises 400 meters (1300 feet) above the valley floor of Oaxaca, and a wave of history, dominated by the cultures of Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs sweeps by User: (WT-shared) through its pyramidal structures. Shrines, palaces, terraced platforms, Anyludes atwts wikivoyage tombs and mounds are scattered across this significant archaeological site, each pointing to Monte Albán's central role in Mesoamerican civilization. At the core of this complex is the Main Plaza, a monumental structure that is dominated by a series of stairs that amble up its southern platform, while small temples, residences and ballcourts are strewn across its surroundings. Several stone structures indicate that morbid sacrificial activities and ceremonies were conducted here. One of the earliest examples of these structures are the Danzantes, a set of figures that harken to the Olmec culture. A few important stone etchings and carvings found on the site have been encased within an on-site museum.

Carretera Oaxaca-Monte Albán, 8 kilometers west of Oaxaca City, Oaxaca Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca "Oaxacan Arts, Traditional & Contemporary"

This beautiful and surprisingly modern museum is located in the village of , just 15 kilometers south of Oaxaca City. Not surprisingly, a large portion of the museum is focused on the village's main craft and claim to fame, the barro negro, or black pottery. This is no by Letiha one note museum, however; the museum also features other traditional crafts from around Oaxaca City and the Valles Centrales. In addition to traditional arts & crafts, the museum also features an impressive collection of more contemporary crafts and artwork from Oaxacan artists.

+52 951 551 0036 www.oaxaca.gob.mx/inde [email protected] Calle Independencia s/n, San x.php?option=com_content x Bartolo Coyotepec &view=article&id=75:muse o-estatal-de-arte-popular-o axaca&catid=31:museos&ItUNIRSI A NOI A : emid=38 cityseeker.com

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