Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público
Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público ( "Museum of the Treasury" ) is a museum for art and especially painting in the center of the Mexican capital Mexico City .
The museum, founded in 1957, mainly exhibits works by Mexican artists from the second half of the 20th century. There are also objects from earlier eras. The building was built around 1530 as a residence for the first Archbishop of Mexico City, on the remains of the pyramid of the Aztec god of war Tezcatlipoca . It was built by the first bishop of Mexico, Juan de Zumárraga . It served the Mexican archbishops in this capacity until 1867. As part of the secularization carried out by the government of Benito Juárez, the building was confiscated and used from then on by the Mexican Ministry of Finance. In the second half of the 20th century, the building was listed as a historical monument and converted into a museum. Large parts of the collection are based on a peculiarity of the Mexican tax legislation, which enables Mexican artists to pay their taxes in the form of natural objects , i.e. self-made works of art. The collection includes a representative cross-section of works by the most important contemporary Mexican artists and artists related to the country. Among others the following artists:
- Leonora Carrington
- Francisco Toledo
- Vicente Rojo
- Juan Soriano
- Alberto Gironella
- Raúl Anguiano
- José Luis Cuevas
- Manuel Felguérez
- Rafael Coronel
- Federico Silva
- Gilberto Aceves Navarro
- Feliciano Béjar
- Pedro Friedeberg
- Marta Palau
- Susana Sierra
- Luis Nishizawa
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Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 1.4 ″ N , 99 ° 7 ′ 53.1 ″ W.