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In the shadow of the Cathedral of Cuernavaca, the "Casa de la Torre" houses a unique collection of fine and decorative arts from all over the world. The visitors will enjoy a house-museum created in a potion of a massive XVI century Franciscan Convent.
The collections were assembled by Robert Brady (1928-1986). Born in Iowa, USA, with a career in the fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tyler Arts Center of Temple University and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, he established residence in Venice for five years before settling here in Cuernavaca in 1962.
During his entire creative life he traveled extensively adding to the collections. To be seen are major works of art by Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, Miguel Covarrubias, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery And Graham Sutherland.
This collection of more than 1300 works also includes Mexican colonial furniture, prehispanic figures and tribal art from Africa, the Americas, Oceania, India and the Far East displayed in the fourteen rooms open to the public.
With an unfailing artistīs eye, Brady a painter and designer, assembled this rich mosaic of contrasting styles and epochs. The wildly colorful rooms are exactly as Brady left them. Also the visitor will enjoy the sculptures and tropical vegetation of the two patios.
Tuesday through Sunday 10 am to 6 pm; closed Mondays.
Guided tours by appointment.
Reservations: 318-85-54 (Fax: 314-3529)
Also available:
A museum shop with fine Mexican crafts. A small cafe in the main patio.
A private Audio - Visual screening facilities.
Specially programmed cultural events.
Rental of the main patio for private receptions.
This house-museum and cultural center is located at calle Netzahualcoyotl # 4 near the "zocalo de Cuernavaca", the central plaza.
This place was constructed in 1533 over an Indian temple and was used as the residence of conqueror Hernan Cortes and his successors. Today, this building has become the cuauhnahuac museum and houses twenty halls that offer a general vision of Morelos` regional history.
One of the halls depicts some prehistoric animals fossils; others shows lythical material and ceramics from de pre-Classic era and a third one is dedicated to the classical period. it is interesting to observe the garments and implements from the colonial period.
There are also murals in the top hall painted from 1930 and 1932 by Diego Rivera at the request of the American Ambassador Dwight D. Morrow.
On its exterior visitor can admire part of the pyramid shape base over which the place was constructed and that was discovered with the excavations of 1971.
Also there is an irregular-shape stone that is a meter tall and two meters long and that has an alligator sculpted with four circles on its side, meaning a date.
It is a currently exhibited in the Palacio de Cortez, now Cuauhnahuac Museum.
