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During my visit to the Diego Rivera Museum, also known as Anahuacalli, I learned one thing: It isn't a museum bur rather a place where Diego Rivera "kept his pre-Colonial and post-Colonial idols. Let's call it a "Warehouse" where he kept the 9,0000 different pieces he acquired.
Diego is the soul designer of the structure, including all the images found on the ceilings, on the walls, and on the floor. The entire 'house' is made of volcanic rock.
The structure is divided into three levels: the underworld, our world, and the heavens. It is also divided in four sections dedicated to the four elements: earth, water, wind, fire.
The structure was made to resemble a pyramid and all its hallways and staircases are very narrow, just like the inside of a pyramid. In short, Diego Rivera really understood and honored his raices indias. Unfortunately, Diego was not able to see his "temple" completed. He died before it was finished.
Some of things I found at the Anahucalli were a collection of giant aljebrijes...
As a collection of Judas...
A sculpture named, "the man in the tree..."
A collection of xoloscuintle, the other Mexican dog.
And the original sketches of some of Diego's finished murals and others he did not get to finish before his death.
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