Mexican Museum

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El Museo Mexicano or The Mexican Museum is a San Francisco, California, USA museum created to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Latino, Chicano, Mexican, and Mexican-American people.

History

Founded in 1975 by San Francisco artist Peter Rodríguez, the museum holds a permanent collection of over 14,000 objects including: Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, Popular, Mexican and Latino Modern, and Mexican, Latino, and Chicano Contemporary art.

The Museum was originally located in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2001, the Museum was relocated to its current location at Fort Mason Center, Building D, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco. The museum is due to break ground in early 2013 on their new building which will be located on Mission and 3rd Streets.^[1]^[2]

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v t e Bay Area arts organizations

Non-profit art spaces	Artists' Television Access Galería de la Raza SF Camerawork Intersection for the Arts The LAB The Luggage Store Pro Arts San Francisco Arts Commission San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Southern Exposure Walter and McBean Galleries

Museums	Asian Art Museum Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Cantor Center for Visual Arts Cartoon Art Museum Palace of the Legion of Honor Contemporary Jewish Museum de Young Museum Mexican Museum Mills College Art Museum Museo ItaloAmericano Museum of Craft and Folk Art Museum of the African Diaspora Oakland Museum Randall Museum San Jose Museum of Art SFMOMA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Artist-in-residence programs	Headlands Center for the Arts

Public and site-specific	Precita Eyes

Defunct	New Langton Arts

v t e Chicano and Mexican American topics

Terms	Chicano Hispanic La Raza Latino Mexican American Tejano

Pre-Chicano Movement	Mexican-American history Mexican-American War Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican Repatriation Sleepy Lagoon trial Zoot Suit Riots

Chicano Movement	Aztlán Católicos por La Raza Chicanismo Chicana feminism Chicano Blowouts Chicano Moratorium PCUN Plan Espiritual de Aztlán Plan de Santa Barbara Farm workers rights campaign Land grant struggle Colegio César Chávez

Supreme Court cases	Botiller v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v. Texas Flores-Figueroa v. U.S. Leal Garcia v. Texas Mendez v. Westminster

Culture	Chicano films Chicano literature Chicano poetry Chicano rock Chicano rap Mexican murals Skull art Teatro Campesino Tortilla art Chicano Park Estrada Courts murals Cholo Pachuco Tejano music Tex-Mex cuisine Zoot suit Lowrider

Lists	Caló words and expressions Chicano poets U.S. communities with Hispanic majority Mexican Americans Writers Notable Hispanics

Category:Mexican Americans Category:Mexican-American organizations

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Mexican Museum

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