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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. There's only one of Orozco's murals on display, but at the time of writing an adjacent Orozco museum was scheduled to open some time in 2008.
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Galería Jorge Martínez
The Galería Jorge Martínez is an interesting modern and conceptual art gallery in the colonial center, adjacent to and benefitting Guadalajara's top art school - Artes Plásticas, operated by the Universidad de Guadalajara.
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Instituto Cultural de Cabañas
Standing proudly at the east end of the brilliant Plaza Tapatía is another of Guadalajara's architectural gems. Inside its Unesco-certified, neoclassical bones are a school, cultural institute and museum. Founded by Bishop Don Juan Cruz Ruiz de Cabañas and designed by Spanish architect Manuel Tolsá, it was built between 1805 and 1810 as an orphanage and home for invalids and remained so for 150 years, housing 450 children at once.
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Museo de Arte de Zapopan
The Museo de Arte de Zapopan is one block east of Plaza de las Américas and is Guadalajara's best modern art complex. Permanent exhibitions of some of Mexico's finest including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Juan Soriano and Luis Barragán are on display; and temporary exhibitions 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 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 de las Artes
Three blocks west of the Parque Revolución at Av Juárez 975 is the Paraninfo (Theater Hall), one of the main buildings of the Universidad de Guadalajara. Inside, the stage backdrop and dome feature large, powerful murals by Orozco. In the back of the same building is the Museo de las Artes , which houses temporary exhibitions that will scratch your modernist itch, once you've overdosed on antigua .
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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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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 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.
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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 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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