1History galleries (lower building)

Twelve chronological rooms from the conquest and the viceroyalty through Independence, the Reform, the French Intervention and the Revolution, with the great murals by Siqueiros, O'Gorman, González Camarena and Gabriel Flores.

In This Area

From the Porfiriato to the Revolution

David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1957 to 1966

Main building, gallery of the Revolution

Altarpiece of Independence

Juan O'Gorman, 1960 to 1961

Main building, Independence gallery

The Fusion of Two Cultures

Jorge González Camarena, 1963

Main building, first gallery on the conquest

Banner of Hidalgo

Eighteenth century, used 1810

Main building, Independence gallery