Photo: DGCS UNAM
The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico (Real y Pontificia Universidad de México) is a university founded by Royal Decree in 1551. Widely considered the first university founded in North America, the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, had been chartered a few months earlier. Renamed the University of Mexico after Mexican Independence, the 19th century saw many attempts to close the "pontifical" part of the school. When it was definitively closed in 1865, many of its secular departments, among them law and medicine, continued operating. At the very twilight of the Porfirato period, these decentralized colleges of higher education were merged under Justo Sierra Méndez. He was then the leading voice of the infamous Cientificos, Porfirio Díaz's intellectual cabal. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was thus founded. The UNAM Hoy Museum occupies one of the original universty's buildings. The museum's mission is relay the importance of both institutions to the history of the City and the country. The museum is part of the UNAM Institute for Research on the University and Education.Nearest at 0.03 kms.
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The first target of the counter-reformational Academy of Art . . .
One of the Center City's most important cultural centers with a small fascinating museum...
The first Academy and Museum of Fine Arts in the Americas...
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