Museum sights in Guadalajara
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Museo Regional de Guadalajara
This must-see museum has an eclectic collection covering the history and prehistory of western Mexico. Displays in the ground-floor natural history section include the skeleton of a woolly mammoth. The archaeological section has some well-preserved figurines, along with many fine artifacts of ceramic, silver, gold and other materials.
Upstairs are galleries of colonial paintings, a history gallery covering the area since the Spanish conquest, and an ethnography section with displays about indigenous life in Jalisco. The museum building, the former seminary of San José, is a late-17th-century baroque structure with two stories of arcades and several courtyards holding hidd…
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Museo de Arte de Zapopan
One block east of the southeast corner of Plaza de las Américas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ) is Guadalajara’s best modern-art museum. Four sleek minimalist galleries hold temporary exhibits, which have included works by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and a whimsical showing of Anthony Browne prints that saw the top floor covered with turf, sticks, stones and sand.
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Museo Regional de la Cerámica
The Museo Regional de la Cerámica is set in a great old adobe building with stone arches and mature trees in the courtyard. It has a nice collection that exhibits the varied styles and clays used in Jalisco and Michoacán. Explanations are in English and Spanish.
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Museo de las Artes
In the back of the Paraninfo is the Museo de las Artes, which houses temporary exhibitions that will scratch your modernist itch once you’ve overdosed on arte clásico.
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Casa-Museo José Clemente Orozco
During the 1940s, the great tapatío painter and muralist, José Clemente Orozco (1883−1949), lived and worked in this house, which now displays various sketches and other artifacts.
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Museo Pantaleón Panduro
Miniature figurines, as well as enormous, lightly fired urns and other ceramic crafts from around Mexico, are on display at the Museo Pantaleón Panduro.
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Museo de la Ciudad
This museum has some nice historical details, such as colonial armor, spears and locks, swords and mandolins that tell the history of Guadalajaran laymen.
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Museo Regional de Tonalá
The carved wood and ceramic masks at the Museo Regional de Tonalá are outstanding. Many are decorated with real animal teeth and horsehair.
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Museo Nacional de la Cerámica
The Museo Nacional de la Cerámica houses an eclectic array of pots from all over Mexico.
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