The Mexican Museum
The Mexican Museum, initially located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, was founded in 1975 by Chicano artist Peter Rodríguez. His vision was to create a place in the United States to showcase the aesthetic expression of the Mexican and Mexican-American people.
The 80’s
In 1982, the Museum moved to Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Its permanent collection consists of more than 12,000 objects. This spectacular collection is unique in the US, it includes pre-Columbian, colonial, popular, modern, contemporary Mexican, Latin, and Chicano art.
Today
The permanent museum located in the privileged Yerba Buena arts district of downtown San Francisco, next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), is currently under construction.
A Mexican museum in the area with the greatest technological development in the world, Silicon Valley, birthplace of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft...
Our participation in the project focuses on the challenge of turning this space into a bridge of communication and collaboration between the Mexican community and its ancient cultural roots, with the technological community of the San Francisco Bay.
Creating connections that allow the Mexican Museum to be a platform for the exchange of ideas and exploration of the frontiers of development of artistic expression with the use of electronic media is what we want to develop together with the Mexican Museum.
To achieve this, we are working on the creation of technological tools that facilitate this objective. In this project, we have carried out an intense rhythm of collaboration between people from very diverse disciplines and backgrounds that contribute to creating a giant canvas in the world Mecca of high technology.
The museum's façade was created by Jan Hendrix and the architectural project was carried out by Ten Arquitectos. The delivery of the work is planned for the end of 2020.
The skin of the building is inspired by migration
Here is Jan Hendrix's interesting reflection on the design of the façade of the Mexican Museum where the arguments of the work are geography and the migration of people, air and culture between Mexico and California.