Museo Plateria
Taxco’s silver museum, Museo Plateria, opened recently. It is located next door to Hotel Posada Los Castillo. This is the place to learn about silver-making and to see some classic pieces, including some of those by William Spratling, although more of these are on display - and some can be purchased - at Spratling’s workshop.
Museo William Spratling
This museum is dedicated to William Spratling, the American who revived Taxco’s silver industry through superb craftsmanship. The entrance floor of this museum and the one above display a collection of pre-Columbian statues and implements in clay, stone, and jade. The lower floor has changing exhibits. Tues-Sat 9am-6pm; Sun 9am-3pm. $4. Free on Sundays. Street Porfirio A. Delgado 1, downhill from the Zócalo.
Casa de la Cultura (Casa Borda)
On the Zócalo, opposite from the Santa Prisca Church, stands the former home of Silver baron José de la Borda, built around 1759, concurrently with the church and with the same architectural style. It now houses the Guerrero State Cultural Center, home to several exhibitions featuring local artists and ancient handicraft like carved woods, pre-Hispanic paintings, jade statuettes or Olmec ceramics
Casa Humboldt / Museo de Arte Virreinal
Also one block from the Zócalo is the richly decorated façade of the Humboldt House, where the renowned German scientist and explorer Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) spent a night in 1803.
This small museum next door to the Museo Plateria boasts a permanent collection of colonial-era memorabilia, sculpture and paintings, including items from the famous Manila Galleons. Many artifacts on display came from a secret room discovered during the recent restoration of the Santa Prisca Church, among them two huge and very rare tumelos (three-tiered funerary paintings), decorated with the armory of Charles III of Spain.
Another section is devoted to historical information about Don Miguel Cabrera, Mexico’s foremost 18th-century artist. Fine examples of clerical garments decorated with gold and silver thread hang in glass cases. A small room is devoted to Humboldt and his journeys throughout the continent.
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