Mexican Museum (San Francisco)

El Museo Mexicano or The Mexican Museum was a museum in San Francisco, California, United States created to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Latino, Chicano, Mexican, and Mexican-American people. As of 2021, their exhibition space permanently closed at Fort Mason Center and Yerba Buena Gardens.

For other uses, see Mexican Museum.
Mexican Museum
Speaker Pelosi at the museum groundbreaking ceremony, 2016.
Location within California
Former name
El Museo Mexicano
Established1975 (1975)
Location706 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
TypeArt museum
FounderPeter Rodríguez
Websitewww.mexicanmuseum.org

About

The museum holds a permanent collection of over 16,000 objects including Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, Popular, Mexican and Latino Modern, and Mexican, Latino, and Chicano Contemporary art.[1][2] It has one of the largest collection of Mexican, Chicano and Latino art in the United States.[3][4]

Authenticity of artifacts

In 2017, archaeologist Dr. Eduardo Perez De Heredi wrote a report which stated that 96% of the museum's 2,000 pre-Columbian artifacts may not be authentic and could only be classed as "decorative"; thus only 83 pieces of 2,000, or just over four percent could be certified as “museum-quality.”[5]

Perez De Heredia, said the rest of the pieces are still being studied, and may turn out to be real or not. “This is just the process . . . We have two years to finish examining the collection,” said Dr. Perez De Heredi.[6] He points out that U.S. museums often receive high-end forgeries as donations and the authentication process is meant to sort those out.[6]

See also

References
  1. Baker, Kenneth (March 13, 2015). "Cultures entwine in vivid forms in Mexican Museum exhibition". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. "Peter Rodriguez (1926–2016)". Artforum.com. August 5, 2016. Retrieved 2021-07-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Spotswood, Beth (2015-06-30). "Mexican Museum founder still fighting for art at 89". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  4. "San Francisco museum to have largest US collection of Mexican and Latino art". The Guardian. 2016-07-18. Retrieved 2021-07-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Kinsella, Eileen (July 7, 2017). "A Staggering 96% of the Artifacts in San Francisco's Mexican Museum May Be Fake, The report found that only 83 of 2,000—or just over four percent—of the museum's pre-Columbian artifacts could be authenticated". ArtNet.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "San Francisco's Mexican Museum Looks To Clarify Recent Study". KPIX-5 CBS. CBS Broadcasting Inc. July 13, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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