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The Museum
The soul and spirit of the arts and cultures of Mexico and the Americas are fundamentally linked. Through its programs, The Mexican Museum voices the complexity and richness of Latino art throughout the Americas, encouraging dialogue among the broadest public.
The Mexican Museum, initially located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, was founded in 1975 by San Francisco resident and artist, Peter Rodríguez. The Museum was the realization of Mr. Rodríguez's vision that an institution be created in the United States to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Mexican and Mexican-American people. Today, our vision has expanded to reflect the evolving scope of the Mexican, Chicano, and Latino experience.
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In 1982 the Museum moved to Fort Mason Center where it has amassed a permanent collection of over 12,000 objects. This spectacular collection is unique in the nation and includes Pre-Conquest, Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican and Latino, and Chicano Art. The Museum is currently preparing for the completion of our permanent home which will be built in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts District. The Museum continues to offer educational and public programming throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Major funding for The Mexican Museum is provided by generous contributions from AAA California State Automobile Association, California Arts Council, Castellano Family Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, Columbia Foundation, Craigslist Foundation, The Fleishhacker Foundation, The Gap Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, LEF Foundation, Joan Diehl McCauley 1991 Trust, Milagro Foundation, Scott Salazar Myers, National Endowment for the Arts, Nordstrom, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, The Poss Family Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, Union Bank of California, Wells Fargo Bank, Zellerbach Family Foundation and our members and individual donors.
  
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