In the preparatory texts of the project, the muralist imagined a huge square with artisan and classes workshops, in addition to a complex of forums dedicated to performing arts, permanent exhibition halls and a Mexican art museum With nine enclosures.
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Anahuacalli Museum Architecture
For the Anahuacalli building, Diego Rivera collaborated very closely with the architect Juan O'Gorman And the project was taking shape, powerfully influenced by the Frank Lloyd Wright functionalism and the concept of organic architecture.
The idea of creating a complex that responded to pre -Hispanic cosmology and at the same time was harmonically inserted into the peculiar terrain of Pedregal became the governing axis of the project. The building was inspired by a Teocalli of three levels and was built with volcanic stone in the areawith Mexican motifs and Teotihuacanos.
After Kahlo's death in 1954, Rivera accelerated the project, but after his death three years later, it was Dolores Olmedo, art collector and intimate friend of the muralist, who was in charge of the remaining costs And finally in 1964, the Anahuacalli Museum opened its doors to the public.
Anahuacalli Museum Collection
The Anahuacalli Museum collection consists of more than 45 thousand pre -Hispanic pieces that Diego Rivera accumulated throughout his life. The permanent exhibition exhibits about 2,000 of these pieces through the 23 rooms, which follow the curatorial criteria of the muralist and instead of carrying a card as if it were an anthropology museum, there are open to the interpretation of the public in an exercise of contemporary art.