National Museum del Virreinato

del Virreinato National Museum is dedicated to research, preservation and dissemination of the culture of the colonial era, one of the most significant periods in the history of Mexico. The building housed the museum school earlier for indigenous peoples, and then - a Jesuit college. The museum was opened in 1964. In the permanent exhibition includes a collection of ivory and wood - sculptures, paintings, household items, as well as a collection of arts and crafts of New Spain (objects of labor blacksmiths, painters, potters, sculptors, and others), a gallery with paintings representing the life of the crowned nuns. Temporary exhibitions of recent times reflect the art of contemporary photographers, religious folk art, life and the expulsion of the Jesuits in the region, as well as a variety of silver products.