Museo Anahuacalli

The construction of the Museo Anahuacalli was Diego Rivera’s most ambitious project. He conceived it as a temple for pre-Hispanic art and culture: a ‘City of the Arts’ in which music, dance, theater, painting, architecture, and ecology would be represented.

The main building, the Anahuacalli, is home to his pre-Hispanic art collection and the drafts of his murals, among them the drawing of the disappeared mural Pesadilla de guerra, sueño de paz (‘nightmare of war, dream of peace’) and the sketches of the controversial work El hombre en la encrucijada (‘man at the crossroads’) which appeared at the Rockefeller Center in Nueva York and was later destroyed.