Mexico - 2018 Miguel Lerdo de Tejada Library

I spent the better part of one day just wandering around downtown in conjunction with some errand, just seeing what I could see, looking for photo ops, admiring the old buildings. 

This looked intriguing 

so I looked for a way into the building around it and entered what had once been a chapel: la Capilla de la Emperatriz del Palacio Nacional.  In the mid 19th century it was turned into a theatre and in the 1960s, converted to the Miguel Lerdo de Tejada Library, housing publications of an economic nature operated by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.  


It's a lovely space but what's most arresting are the murals that fill the entire space.  

These were created by the Russian-Mexican painter, Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich Rusakov, known as Vlady, who came to Mexico as a refugee from Russia with his father.  He was greatly influenced by the Mexican muralists and his murals continued the revolutionary theme.  

What a pleasant surprise to stumble on this place.  It's not on the tourist track and my friend, Alfonso, had not heard of it.  When I was there I neglected to take down any information and spent a long time finding information about it.  

This was my first surprise of the day.