Diego Rivera’s birthplace is now an excellent museum honoring the famous artist, who was persona non grata here for years. Rivera and his twin brother were born in the house in 1886 (Carlos died at age two) and lived here until the family moved to Mexico City six years later. The museum’s ground floor is a re-creation of the Rivera family home, furnished with 19th-century antiques.
We visited this museum after spending Christmas Eve in Irapuato, Mexico, which is my mom’s hometown and where most of our relatives on my mother’s side live. Guanajuato, the city where this museum is located, is around a forty minutes drive away, which allowed us to visit it while being there.
The labyrinth of upper floors in this museum exhibit a permanent collection of his original works and preliminary sketches (completed for some of his famous murals in Mexico City), plus there’s a nude of Frida Kahlo. Several salas (halls) also host temporary exhibitions of work by Mexican and international artists. An intimate theater upstairs features black-and-white photographs of Kahlo and Rivera.
These are some photos I took, specially of the pieces of information about Diego Rivera’s life and work, which captured my attention most:
Marco Serrato 
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