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Centro Cultural Nestor Agundez Martinez
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Casa de Cultura - Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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The Profesor Nestor Agundez Martinez Centro Cultural (also called the Casa de Cultura) located two blocks up Benito Juarez from the Hotel California has a historical library, gallery, ongoing cultural activities, workshops and a museum of local history and anthropology. This large brick was a former elementary school and contains faded murals from the mid-twentieth century.
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| Here one can view artifacts from the indigenous people through the colonial and revolutionary times. La Coronela (the lady colonel) – was a local women revolutionary hero whose aged portrait appears here. A bar (she was a drinker), and hotel restaurant are named after her. Art demonstrations and exhibitions are held here during the annual art festival. |
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After the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - which stretched into 10 years of civil war - the country began rebuilding in the 1920s. President Alvaro Obregon’s government began a new socialist-inspired direction. They commissioned public works of art - Murals - to help educate people about their culture & history.
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| Mural painters like Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco conceived of a new style of art that celebrated Mexican heritage from early Mesoamerica through the Revolution. Their murals rejected European style and showed New World imagery, full of color and human activity. |
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Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Last Revision - 27 January 2008 - jat
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