Museo Pedro Coronel

Museo Pedro Coronel in Zacatecas, Mexico, opened in 1983 to house the collection donated by painter Pedro Coronel. Set in the former Colegio de la Purísima Concepción, a Jesuit institution founded in the 17th century and later used as a hospital, barracks, and prison into the 1960s, it joins a restored colonial-era building to an international art collection. Restoration began in 1974, and the project took its lasting form when Coronel agreed his collection would be shown there. Its holdings span Greece, China, Japan, Italy, Africa, and Oceania, include artists such as Chagall, Dalí, Picasso, and Vasarely, and are complemented by the twenty-thousand-volume Elías Amador library.

Zacatecas · Mexico