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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Peter Rodriguez Mexican Museum of San Francisco
Papers
Collection number:
35
Creator:
Peter
Rodriguez
Extent:
one linear foot
Abstract:
Peter Rodriguez was raised in both Stockton and
Jackson, California. It was there that he first became interested in Art. In
1975, he founded the Mexican Museum as an institution designed to collect,
preserve, interpret and present the artistic expression of the Mexican people,
regardless of their birth-nation. The unique goal was to establish a museum that
showed all five components of Pre-Conquest, Colonial, Popular, Mexican and
Chicano Contemporary Art.
Rodriguez envisioned a Museum as both a space in which to preserve and present
the culture of the Mexican people, and as a vehicle for Mexican people
themselves to present their own culture.
During the Museum's first ten years of operation, Rodriguez devoted his full
energy to the daily museum operations. The dual role of director and curator
left little time for his own painting. As the Museum grew in size and maturity,
it began to attract the attention of a broad scope of individuals and the museum
began to form a permanent collection. As the collection grew, so did the number
and scope of exhibitions presented by the Museum to the public.
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finding aid can contact the archivist at archivist@chicano.ucla.edu
Physical location:
This collection is currently stored at the
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center archive. In the future the collection will
be stored at the UCLA Southern Regional Library Facility.
Collection materials in English and
Spanish
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