If you have an interest in abstract painting and sculpture, give this museum a try. The building and exhibit layout is interesting and inventive as well.
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Museo de Francisco Goitia
Enrique Estrada 102 | Col. Sierra de Alica, Zacatecas, Mexico
492-922-0211
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Ranked #9 of 21 attractions in Zacatecas
6 Reviews
Type: Art Museums, Museums
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Once the governor's mansion, this large structure now serves as a museum with exhibits on the art and history of the region, specifically the work of......
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Once the governor's mansion, this large structure now serves as a museum with exhibits on the art and history of the region, specifically the work of Goitia, a famous local painter from the early 1900s.
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I agree with the prior review. This is a wonderful little museum with very interesting art by a number of artists, not just Goitia. It is just slightly off the beaten path at the outer edge of the historic district but worth the few minutes walk to get there.
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Francisco Goitia, an important Mexican artist whose life spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, had a tortured and mostly poverty-afflicted life, making it an odd bit of irony that his art should now be housed in such a handsome ex-governor's mansion. But this turns out to be a wonderful setting for his moving portraits and landscapes, for permanent collections of...
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