Museo Mural Diego Rivera

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  • Address
    cnr Balderas & Colón, Alameda Central & Around
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  • Phone
    5510 2329
  • Transport
    underground rail: Hidalgo

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Among Diego Rivera's most famous works is Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda (Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda), painted in 1947. In the 15m-long by 4m-high mural, the artist imagined many of the figures who walked in the city from colonial times onward, among them Cortés, Juárez, Emperor Maximilian, Porfirio Díaz, and Francisco Madero and his nemesis, General Victoriano Huerta.

All are grouped around a Catarina (skeleton in prerevolutionary women's garb). Rivera himself, as a pug-faced child, and Frida Kahlo stand beside the skeleton. Charts identify all the characters.Just west of the Alameda, the Diego Rivera Mural Museum was built in 1986 to house the mural, after its original location, the Hotel del Prado, was wrecked by the 1985 earthquake.