Museo Sala De Arte Público David Alfaro Siqueiros

One of the Big Three of Mexican muralism along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros is recalled as much for his fiercely radical political views as for his larger-than-life paintings. An avowed anarchist, he notoriously organized an (unsuccessful) assassination attempt on the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Shortly before his death in 1974, Siqueiros donated his Polanco residence and studio to the government for use as a museum. Fans of the iconoclastic painter will find plenty of illuminating material about his life and work here, including sketches for his mural projects, and some of his paintings, notably an unfinished homage to Vietnam. But Siqueiros' greatest works reside elsewhere, such as the Museo Nacional de Historia, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Palacio de Bellas Artes and the campus of UNAM.