| It is located in the former family home Serdán Alatriste, whose members were murdered by the "Porfiristas" forces 18 November 1910. This event is considered one of the main triggers of the Mexican Revolution.
The building that houses it dates from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Over the years the building served as house-room for several families, until in 1960 it was acquired and restored by the State Government, project architects and Mario Cesar Elias Sosa. |
It opened as a museum on 18 November of that year, exactly 50 years after the murder. In its 24 permanent exhibition rooms on two floors, visitors can learn the background and the making of the revolutionary movement in Mexico, through documents, furniture and memorabilia, paintings, photographs and murals with the main characters from that period history.
The collection includes, among many other things, the mirror Serdán family torn apart by bullets, a room dedicated to the revolutionary women and a mural of Velazquez, in which characters appear as Miguel Cabrera, Porfirio Díaz, the brothers Aquiles, Máximo and Carmen Serdan, Francisco I. Madero, Emiliano Zapata, Venustiano Carranza, Lázaro Cárdenas and Adolfo López Mateos.
It has an auditorium and organized guided tours, concerts and conferences.
Source: http://sic.conaculta.gob.mx/ |
