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July 19, 2016

Nation's Largest Mexican & Latino Art Museums Opens in San Francisco
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And a dedication ceremony takes place today for San Francisco's newest
museum: The Mexican Museum, which will house the United States' largest
collection of Mexican and Latino art. The 60,000-square-foot museum will
include 800 works of Mexican folk art, including pieces by Mexican
muralist Diego Rivera. The museum is the realization of the dream of
Mexican-American artist Peter Rodriguez. He opened San Francisco's first
museum for Latino art in a Mission District storefront in 1975. He died
on July 1 at the age of 90.


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