Pinacoteca Diego Rivera is an
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
in downtown
Xalapa
Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which ...
, in
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
state, of eastern
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It has a large collection of the works of
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...
.
The museum was inaugurated by the state government on April 21, 1998, to provide the opportunity to the public to study the artwork of one of Mexico's famous painters.
See also
*
List of single-artist museums
This is a list of single-artist museums, which are museums displaying the work of, or bearing the name of, a single visual artist.
* Basuki Abdullah – Basoeki Abdullah Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
* Affandi – Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta, Indones ...
*
List of works by Diego Rivera
This is a list of works by Diego Rivera (8 December 1886, Guanajuato – 24 November 1957, Mexico City). He was a Modern art, Modern painter, famous for his Social realism, social realist murals. This list is split into two distinct era's in Rive ...
*
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Museo Mural Diego Rivera is a museum in Mexico City where Diego Rivera's 1946–47 mural '' Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central'' is located.
Location
It is located at Balderas Avenue number 202, in the historic center of Mexico ...
, Mexico City
References
External links
Portal Veracruz
Art museums and galleries in Mexico
Biographical museums in Mexico
Modern art museums
Xalapa
Art museums established in 1998
1998 establishments in Mexico
Museums in Veracruz
Rivera
Rivera () is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a street away from it, at the north end of Route 5. Together, they form an urban area of aro ...
{{Mexico-museum-stub