Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca
A contemporary art museum in a converted colonial mansion on the pedestrian street, showing works by the Oaxacan school of painters, including Toledo and Tamayo, and contemporary artists.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca (MACO) is housed in a 17th- to 18th-century mansion on the Macedonio Alcalá pedestrian street. It is popularly known as the 'Casa de Cortés', and it opened in 1992, pushed forward by the painter Francisco Toledo and others. The museum mainly hosts rotating exhibitions, showing paintings, prints and installations by the Oaxacan school and Mexican contemporary artists. The courtyard and the wooden-beamed ceilings are worth a look in their own right. Admission costs about 20 to 40 pesos (check on site). Closed on Tuesdays, and it is easy to visit on the way past.
Opening hours
Approx. 10:30–20:00; closed Tuesdays
Nearby sights
- Andador Turístico (Calle Macedonio Alcalá)
- Teatro Macedonio Alcalá
- Templo de Santo Domingo & Museum of Oaxacan Cultures
- Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art
- Museo Textil de Oaxaca
- Zócalo & Oaxaca Cathedral
- Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca
- Mercado Benito Juárez