TR06 Mexican Art Deco: The Museo de Artes Populares

Tour Leader: Dante Furioso, Princeton University

$30 • AIA CES: 1.5 LU • Capacity: 15
Walking • Mobility Level: ML3

Inaugurated in 2006, The Museo de Artes Populares (Museum of Folk Art) is housed in a 1927Art Deco fire and police station, designed by the Mexican architect and painter, Vicente Mendiola. The tour first contextualizes Mendiola's work and the state-led effort to build police and fire stations in the Mexican capital. Observing the museum's exterior and interior, the tour discusses the building's striking, eclectic exterior, which incorporates figural elements inspired by traditional Mexican art carved in bas relief along the building's facade with the more familiar bold geometric gestures of Art Deco. A visit to the building's interior focuses on its adaptation into a museum, tying the folk art exhibited to the architecture of the building itself.

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Hilton Mexico City Reforma, Avenida Juárez 70, Col. Centro, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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