Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños

Museum of Oaxacan Painters.

On January 26, 1686, this property was inaugurated as a girls' school bearing the name of "Las Doncellas de Nuestra Señora de la Presentación", later it had various uses: it was the first venue where the jewels from tomb 7 of Monte Albán were exhibited ; then the building became the State Regional Museum until 1986; then it was occupied by the City Council until 1992; From 1993 to 2003, the house housed the facilities of the State Tourism Secretariat.

On a historical level, it was the site of the first Museum of Anthropology and History in 1933, a vestige that we can still observe from this time when entering the first patio and seeing the original column from the archaeological site of Mitla, which was placed in this space for the opening from the INAH museum.

The museum's mission is to promote and participate in the development of art in Oaxaca and the world, through the investigation of ways of doing, seeing and understanding the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video), as a tool that enables a new living and participatory topology for the community, in keeping with its nature of conservation, analysis and dissemination of works of art produced from Oaxaca.

The MUPO has the obligation to be a special instrument for education through the approach to the concrete, and even an instrument of controlled development of the economy and a place accessible to all and position itself as one of the best museums in the southeast of the Republic through the dissemination of its activities, exhibitions and collection expressing the different forms of thought at the regional, national and international level.