MUSEO MURAL DIEGO RIVERA

This museum has the distinction of having been built especially for a single work by Rivera. The 15-meter fresco is entitled " El Sueño Dominical en la Alameda " (Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda), and was originally exhibited in the Hotel del Prado in 1947. After the earthquake of 1985, it was fortunately saved and moved to its current location. It was even hidden behind a curtain for nine years, until 1956, because of the scandalous inscription: "God does not exist". The fresco is divided horizontally into three historical parts from 1521 to 1947. The left part corresponds to the colonial period (Hernán Cortès, Fray Juan de Zumarraga, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Luis de Velasco II) and the Independence (General Santa Ana giving the keys of the territory to the North American general, the Reformation and the Second Empire where we find the figures of Benito Juárez and Maximilian of Habsburg). The central panel symbolizes the period of the dictator Díaz, and there is a representation of Diego Rivera as a child, embraced by Frida Kahlo and held by the hand of the Catrina, the famous female skeleton figure by José Guadalupe Posada, one of the artist's mentors during his youth. The third section illustrates the peasant and labor movements of the Mexican Revolution and Mexico in modern times, represented by corrupt presidential figures. All of these figures are located in the famous Alameda Central Park.