National Museum of Mexican Art

National Museum of Mexican Art Review

As the largest Latino museum in the country, this is the one musuem you shouldn't miss after you've done the big museums downtown. Galleries house impressive collections of contemporary, traditional, and meso-American art from both sides of the border, as well as vivid exhibits that trace immigration woes and political fights. Its 5,500-object permanent collection includes pre-Cuauhtemoc artifacts, textiles, paintings, prints and drawings, and folk art. Every fall the giant "Day of the Dead" exhibit stuns Chicagoans with its altars from artists across the country.