This is a Museum that, as a Mexican, I was looking forward to visit after we moved to Chicago. We decided to visit it for a special Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibition in late October 2019.
Founded in 1982, the museum aims to represent the Mexican community from their own point of view and their own voice. I learned some interesting facts about the museum while visiting it. In 1982, Carlos Tortolero organized a group of fellow educators and founded the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, which opened its doors in 1987. The goal was to establish an arts and cultural organization committed to accessibility, education and social justice. The museum also provided a positive influence for the local Mexican community, especially since many other art institutions did not address Mexican art.
Over the years, the institution has grown, its audience has broadened, and its reach now extends across the United States and beyond. To support this evolution, in 2001, the museum expanded to a 48,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Pilsen and in 2006 the museum unveiled a new name, the National Museum of Mexican Art.
As presented in its website, the Museum stands out as the most prominent first-voice institutions for Mexican art and culture in the United States. It is home to one of the country’s largest Mexican art collections, including more than 18,000 seminal pieces from ancient Mexico to the present.
As the first Latino museum accredited by American Alliance of Museums, we recognize our unique responsibility to present exhibitions of artistic and cultural value and to deliver high-quality education that demonstrates the breadth and depth of Mexican art, culture and history.
These are some photos I took while visiting it:
Marco Serrato 
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