National Museum of Mexican Art

Art Museum · Chicago, Illinois

The largest collection of Mexican art in the United States, in a converted park building in Pilsen, founded in 1982 by two Chicago schoolteachers who wanted a museum their students could walk to. It holds some eighteen thousand works spanning three thousand years and both sides of the border, it is the only Latino museum in the country accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, and admission has been free since the day it opened.

1852 West 19th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60608, United States

FREE. CLOSED MONDAYS. Generally Tuesday to Sunday, roughly 10 AM - 5 PM. Día de Muertos exhibition roughly late September to early December.

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