Which museum now houses Rivera's fresco featuring La Catrina?

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The museum that now houses Rivera’s fresco featuring La Catrina is Museo Mural Diego Rivera.

The fresco is Diego Rivera’s 1947 mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central, or Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central. La Catrina appears prominently beside José Guadalupe Posada, whose earlier skeletal engraving inspired the figure, and a child representing Rivera.

The mural was originally installed in Mexico City’s Hotel del Prado. After the hotel was badly damaged in the 1985 earthquakes, specialists cut the mural-bearing wall from the building and moved it to a purpose-built museum. Museo Mural Diego Rivera opened in 1988 and was designed around the preserved work. A common mix-up is Museo Frida Kahlo: that museum is devoted to Kahlo’s former home and life, not Rivera’s Alameda Central mural.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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