This building has Renaissance characteristics, based on the classical Doric order. Its main façade faces north, i.e. towards the Plaza de la Constitución or Zócalo of the city. All the work is of green quarry; the first level has a good number of openings with semicircular arches, between paired columns. At the entrance to the museum, the palace hall presents, from a general panorama, “the state of Oaxaca and its historic center as a cultural heritage of humanity”.
Inside the palace, in 1980, Arturo García Bustos painted the walls of the main staircase leading to the upper floor. This mural represents three epochs; in the left wall the pre-Hispanic era is expressed, reflecting the customs and the type of life of the Mixtecs, Zapotecos and Mexicas; in the right wall passages from the time of the conquest; finally, in the central wall, the independent era. In the latter, José María Morelos y Pavón is represented with the printing press and the first newspaper in Oaxaca called “El correo del sur”. Other characters appear, such as: Benito Juárez, Margarita Maza, José María Morelos and Ricardo Flores Magón.
Schedule: monday from 9:30 to 17:00 hrs, tuesday to saturday from 9:30 to 18:00 hrs. and Sundays from 9:30 to 16:00 hrs.
Location: Plaza de la Constitución, S/N, Col. Centro Histórico, 68000 Oaxaca, Oaxaca.