Marvel at the splendor of its elegant colonial buildings, streets and flavors that live up to its nickname "City Of the Angels".
A legend is responsible for this beautiful city being known as Puebla de los Angeles.
In April 1979, Mexican banker Manuel Espinosa Yglesias created the Fundación Amparo to carry out social, educational and cultural activities in Mexico.
In the cultural field, the most important work of the foundation was the creation of the Amparo Museum, in memory of his wife Amparo Rugarcía de Espinosa.
The Amparo Museum started operations in 1991
The Museo Amparo is a museum institution dedicated to the presentation and study of Mexican art, with the mission of catalyzing dialogue between the history of art and the present, the roots and the people of Mexico.
It has a collection of more than 1,700 pieces of pre-Hispanic art, considered the most important collection housed in a private museum in Mexico; it also houses more than 1,300 works of Viceroyalty art and art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
It receives more than 120,000 visitors a year and serves a population of 12,000 people in its workshops, diploma courses, conferences, courses and events.
The headquarters of the Amparo Museum is located in the Historic Center of the city of Puebla, housed in an extraordinary colonial building that was originally the Hospital de San Juan de Letran, the first health institution in the city, erected in 1538.
Over the years, the group of buildings that made up the hospital were transformed into other institutions and residential homes.
For the foundation of the Amparo Museum, these buildings were restored and unified with an architectural rescue project under the direction of architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.
With a permanent collection of more than 4,500 works that reflect the richness and diversity of Mexico's history from pre-Hispanic, colonial, nineteenth-century and modern times to contemporary plastic expressions, it lives up to its motto... an encounter with our roots.
The Amparo Museum is positioned as an institution that places Puebla as a cultural reference at national and international level through research, exhibition and dissemination of pre-Hispanic art.
The Amparo Museum has a permanent collection of more than 4,500 works that reflect the richness and diversity of Mexico's history from pre-Hispanic, colonial, nineteenth-century and modern times to contemporary plastic expressions, honoring its motto ... an encounter with our roots.
The building was adapted by Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez to become a museum. Its various uses and transformations make it an architectural site of great historical value in the city of Puebla.
In 2010, the architectural firm TEN arquitectos was in charge of the architectural update.
This consisted of three stages to improve the visitors' experience and the conservation of the historic building and the collection. This intervention left new spaces in the museum, such as: facilities with conditions for the safekeeping of artistic works, cafeteria with terrace, store and accessibility for people with disabilities.
The museum is housed in a building that, thanks to its aesthetic qualities and artistic content, combines past and present.
The Amparo Museum is a private institution founded in memory of Amparo Rugarcía de Espinosa in 1991 by Manuel Espinosa Yglesias and his daughter Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias Rugarcía through the Amparo Foundation, with the commitment to conserve, research, exhibit and disseminate pre-Hispanic, colonial, modern and contemporary Mexican art.
In 1991 the Museo Amparo was founded to conserve, research, exhibit and disseminate pre-Hispanic, colonial, modern and contemporary art of Mexico and the world.
The headquarters of the Amparo Museum is located in the Historic Center of the city of Puebla, housed in an extraordinary colonial building that was originally the Hospital de San Juan de Letran, the first health institution in the city, erected in 1538.
Over the years, the group of buildings that made up the hospital were transformed into other institutions and residential houses. For the founding of the Amparo Museum, these buildings were restored and unified with an architectural rescue project under the direction of architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.
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Marvel at the splendor of its elegant colonial buildings, streets and flavors that live up to its nickname "City Of the Angels".
A legend is responsible for this beautiful city being known as Puebla de los Angeles.
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