DIEGO RIVERA
Antiguo Colegio de San ildefonso
Justo Sierra 16, col. Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc municipality, Mexico City.
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Murals of the Secretary of Public Education
República de Argentina 28, col. Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc municipality, Mexico City
Diego Rivera Mural Museum
Balderas s/n and Colón, col. Centro, Cuauhtémoc municipality, Mexico City
Mon. to Sun. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ig @museomuraldiegorivera
Cárcamo de Dolores
Rodolfo Neri Vela Ave., Bosque de Chapultepec, section II, Miguel Hidalgo municipality, Mexico City
Mon. to Sun. from 10 am to 5 pm
Ph: 55 5515 0739
Anahuacalli Museum
Museo 150, col. San Pablo Tepetlapa, Coyoacán municipality, Mexico City
Mon. to Sun. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Ig @anahuacalli
In 1922, climbing on scaffolding in the Simón Bolívar amphitheater of the then National Preparatory School -today Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso- Diego Rivera was painting his first mural. He was 36 years old and perhaps he never imagined that his work would become a reference of what it means to be Mexican. He told the story of Mexico from his time and beliefs on dozens of walls and staircases with firm strokes and emblematic figures. This powerful Diego is revealed in the murals of the Secretary of Public Education, the Palace of Fine Arts and the National Palace; he also manifests himself in the Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central, and in the underwater mural of the Cárcamo de Dolores, which was flooded for over 40 years. Diego also decorated theaters and stadiums; he painted wives and lovers, he imagined museums… to follow in his footsteps is to know him as well as the city.