Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato — Attraction in Guanajuato

Small, yet very interesting museum of mexican (mostly) contemporary art. The first level of the museum is a rotating exhibition dedicated to handicrafts & mexican popular art, second level consists of a small chapel & a religious popular art exhibit, which stays the same. The third level consist of a rotating exhibition of contemporary art from mexican & foreign artists. A small jewel in this city. My favourite museum...

This museum has a cheap entrance (25pesos / 1euro) and depending on the exhibitions, you can spend a really nice moment ! The building in itself is quite nice, with a huge painting of a famous local painter (who also painted walls of the Alhondiga de Granaditas), located in a sort of Chapel. You can also spot the Pipila from there ! Temporary exhibitions are generally quite good, and change...

This museum is very inexpensive, and well worth a visit. They have both very old art (portraits and religious paintings from the history of the city) and also exhibits by contemporary artists. I don't speak enough Spanish to really understand the contemporary stuff, but it was nice to look at anyway. I'm not usually a fan of old religious art, but they have some really...