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In the 1940s, Mexican artist Diego Rivera had a dream: to build a sacred place to preserve and display his lifelong collection of pre-Hispanic art..
The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this month, is everything he hoped for. Inch by inch, its pyramid structure honors the Mexica worldview..
This is Diego Riveras dream come true: a space in which art, nature and the public coexist, said Mara Teresa Moya, director of the Anahuacalli..
Aside from a gastronomic festival in June and monthly lectures on Riveras legacy which the public can attend through December neighbors who knew the artist are working on a video to preserve the oral collective memory of the museum and the neighborhood where its located..
His 20 works on display, a press release said, were inspired by one of Riveras murals, which was highly controversial and mysteriously disappeared, though its sketch is preserved: The Nightmare of War, The Dream of Peace..
