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Exploring the complexity of Mexican and Latino art in the Americas

Exploring the complexity of Mexican and Latino art in the Americas

The Mexican Museum holds a unique collection of 14,000 spectacular objects representing thousands of years of Mexican art and culture within the Americas.

The permanent collection, the Museum's most important asset and resource, includes five collecting areas: Pre-Hispanic; Colonial; Popular; Modern and Contemporary Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art. The Museum also has an impressive number of rare books and a growing collection of Latin American art.

Care of Collections: Inventory Project

The Mexican Museum is in the process of undertaking a systematic inventory and imaging of its permanent collections! Acquired through the generosity of hundreds of donors since its founding, the museum's collections are comprised of ancient, colonial, popular, and the fine arts of Mexico, the United States, and Latin America. Now totaling an estimated 14,000 objects, these collections serve as a major interdisciplinary resource for greater knowledge and understanding of a multitude of interrelated hemispheric cultures.

The inventory project consists of hands-on physical accounting of each object in the museum's collections. As of October 2012 over 5,700 artifacts have been examined and photographed by a team of museum professionals and trained interns from John F. Kennedy University and the University of San Francisco. Through these efforts the collections will have wider visibility and accessibility now and in the future through use in museum exhibitions, programs, publications, loans to other institutions as well as website and computer applications.

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