Museum
Former College of San Ildefonso
Justo Sierra 16, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06020 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Colonial college turned museum, its stairwells covered in the earliest murals of the Mexican revolution.
This guide to the Former College of San Ildefonso in Mexico City follows the muralist Jose Clemente Orozco through the National Preparatory School stairwell he was given by education minister Jose Vasconcelos in 1923, alongside Diego Rivera's assignment upstairs. It traces the Masonic symbols and anti-clerical satire in Orozco's first murals here, which outraged students, and what happened by 1926 when the rector handed him the same walls a second time. Only two pieces of that original 1923 attempt survive.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.