iNational Museum of Mexican Art · Pilsen
Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de Muertos
The museum's 40th annual Día de Muertos exhibition looks back through the permanent collection at how the holiday and the museum itself have evolved, with ofrendas, installations and a community memory space.
Out in the museum's Courtyard is an ofrenda anyone can add to. You can leave a note, a drawing or a memory for someone you've lost, alongside everyone else's.
This is the museum's 40th annual Día de Muertos show, and it uses its own Permanent Collection to look back at how the holiday, and the museum, have changed over four decades. The Main Gallery mixes ofrendas and installations by makers from Oaxaca, Mexico City, Washington and Chicago with work by more than 40 artists, from José Guadalupe Posada and Leonora Carrington to Carmen Lomas Garza and Patssi Valdez. Olga Costa's Ofrenda de muertos, painted in 1965-67, is here too. The show is dedicated to Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas (1947-2026), a Chicano Studies pioneer who helped shape that collection.
Entry is free, as it always is here. The Courtyard installations are by the youth artists of Yollocalli Arts Reach. On the first Wednesday of the month the museum stays open until 8pm, and it is closed on Mondays.
Erredakzioaren aukera
In the courtyard stands an ofrenda built from visitors' own notes and drawings for people they have lost, and you can add one. Inside, Posada, Leonora Carrington and Olga Costa fill the museum's 40th Día de Muertos show.
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The community ofrenda
Look for it in the Courtyard: an altar built from visitors' own notes, drawings and memories of people they have lost, and you can add one.
The Yollocalli Courtyard
Youth artists from Yollocalli Arts Reach designed and curated original installations here that take the holiday's traditions and give them a modern twist.
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- Kultura merkea
- Iluntzeko bisitak
National Museum of Mexican Art: beste erakusketa batzuk
- Vivir la Tierra: Bilduma Iraunkorreko eskuraketak 2010–2026 (Vivir la Tierra: Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection 2010–2026)2026(e)ko abuztuaren 15(a) – 2027(e)ko otsailaren 7(a)
- Nuestras Historias: Mexikoko identitateari buruzko istorioak bilduma iraunkorretik (Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection)Bilduma iraunkorra
Orain ikusgai inguruan
Irudien kredituak
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- Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de MuertosNational Museum of Mexican Art
- Karimah Ashadu: Tendered© Karimah Ashadu. Courtesy the Artist, Camden Art Centre, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Sadie Coles HQ and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
- A Tale of Today Presents Brendan Fernandes: In the RoundCourtesy of Richard H. Driehaus Museum
- Raqib Shaw: Paradise LostCourtesy of Art Institute of Chicago
- National Museum of Mexican ArtSkvader / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0