Celebrating Diego Rivera's nature as a collector and rescuer of Mexican culture, the Anahuacalli Museum's renovated cellar houses more than 40,000 pieces of clay, obsidian and stone that the artist himself collected over 30 years.
As part of the remodeling, expansion and construction project of the Anahuacalli's spaces by architect Mauricio Rocha, this warehouse, designed exclusively for cataloguing and safeguarding Diego's legacy, is one of the main jewels of this new cultural infrastructure.
Although it is not yet open to the public, we had the opportunity to visit it and admire the pre-Hispanic pieces that show the daily life of the people of Western Mexico, such as Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit and Michoacán. These figures were the painter's favorites, and of which only 2,000 are on display at the Anahuacalli, the rest are kept in this warehouse.
Among models of ball games, figures of animals and warriors, obsidian spearheads, pieces of facades and countless plates and vessels, the Anahuacalli's bodega is a space that transports you to what sometimes seems to be impossible to access: the traditional and fantastic past of Mexico and the city.
The new architectural spaces of the Anahuacalli Museum, which extend over 2,300 square meters and where architecture, painting, dance, music, sculpture, theater, crafts and ecology coexist, are currently open to the public.
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