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El Museo Mexicano or The Mexican Museum is a San Francisco, California, USA museum created to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Latino, Chicano, Mexican, and Mexican-American people.
History
The Mexican Museum was founded in 1975 by artist Peter Rodríguez. Its mission was "to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Mexican and Mexican-American people." This mission was expanded to reflect Mexican, Chicano, and Latino artistic experience.
The Museum was originally located in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2001, the Museum was relocated to the Fort Mason Center, Building D, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco. A capital campaign is underway to relocated the Museum to a permanent location in the Mission District at Mission and 3rd.
Today, the Museum's collection comprises over 12,000 objects.
See also
External links
- Official Mexican Museum Website
- "Mexican Museum still searching for a home", San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2008
Museums Asian Art Museum · Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive · Cantor Center for Visual Arts · Cartoon Art Museum · Palace of the Legion of Honor · Contemporary Jewish Museum · de Young Museum · Mexican Museum · Mills College Art Museum · Museo ItaloAmericano · Museum of Craft and Folk Art · Museum of the African Diaspora · Oakland Museum · Randall Museum · San Jose Museum of Art · SFMOMA · Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Artist-in-residence programs Public and site-specific Defunct Chicano and Mexican American topics Terms Pre-Chicano Movement Mexican-American history · Mexican-American War · Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo · Mexican Repatriation · Sleepy Lagoon trial · Zoot Suit Riots
Chicano Movement Supreme Court cases Botiller v. Dominguez · Hernandez v. Texas · San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez · Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. · U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce · Plyler v. Doe · Medellín v. Texas · Flores-Figueroa v. U.S. · Leal Garcia v. Texas
Culture Lists Caló words and expressions · Chicano poets · U.S. communities with Hispanic majority · Mexican Americans · Writers · Notable Hispanics
Category:Mexican Americans · Category:Mexican-American organizations Categories:- Museums in San Francisco, California
- Mexican-American culture
- Ethnic museums in California
- Art museums in California
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