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date: 27 April 2025

National History Museum, Chapultepec Castlelocked

National History Museum, Chapultepec Castlelocked

  • Salvador Rueda SmithersSalvador Rueda SmithersMuseo Nacional de Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Summary

As a monument and museum, Chapultepec Castle is today an emblem for Mexicans. It signified a double synthesis of memory: the building tells the history of the old Military College and the residence of Mexican rulers before the building became a museum. Its interior spaces, the objects of its collection, and the 20th-century murals recount and construct the shared history of Mexicans over the last 500 years.

Subjects

  • History of Mexico
  • 1492–1824
  • 1824–c. 1880
  • 1889–1910
  • 1910–1945
  • 1945–1991

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