The SHCP Museum of Art is in the old headquarters of the Bishop of Mexico City. The museum holds the permanent display of artworks collected through a "payment in kind" program offered to all artists in Mexico. Many of the country's biggest, most important artists have made tax payments "in kind." The result is a stunning collection of furniture, ornamental objects, and applied arts, plus paintings, sculptures, prints, and museum quality metalwork and coins. The permanent collection includes works by Juan Correa, Diego García, Rufino Tamayo, Federico Cantú, Antonio Ruiz, Adolfo Best Maugard and Raúl Anguiano. That's to name just a few. The program had a big advocate in the artist, David Alfaro Siqueiros. His work can be seen here and in numerous other locations around the city. Like a lot of Mexico City museums in Mexico City, the building is as fascinating as the collection.
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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...
The former Santa Inés Church & Convent provides some lively competition on a City Center street.
A museum dedicated to one of the oldest institutions in the hemisphere and its long role in Mexico City.