Museo De Arte Contemporándo

The headquarters of the museum in an old house built at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century by the Lazo de la Vega and Pínelo families, whose coat of arms presides over the façade, popularly known as the house of Hernán Cortés”. despite the fact that the conqueror was never in the city of Oaxaca. Over the years, the house of the Lazo de la Vega and Pinelo families passed into the hands of different owners until the State Government acquired it in 1986 to install the City Museum in it. Six years later, on February 28, 1992, the joint initiative of artists, citizens, and authorities gave the property a new use with the creation of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca. In 2010, the restoration of the house that houses the museum was carried out, which lasted 18 months. The ceiling of the Museum's stairway is a star-shaped vault, with ribbed reliefs in mortar, on which Francisco Toledo worked, and which is now another visual attraction within the museum. The museum also has a sculpture courtyard, where conferences and sporadically film and performance functions are held.