Museo Robert Brady
House museum behind Cuernavaca cathedral holding Robert Brady's collection of art from many cultures.
Robert Brady (1928–1986) was an American painter and collector from Iowa who settled in Cuernavaca in 1962. He bought the Casa de la Torre, a rambling house built into part of the sixteenth-century Franciscan monastery precinct behind the cathedral, and spent more than two decades filling it with objects gathered on his travels. Brady left the house and its contents to a foundation on condition that the rooms be kept as he arranged them, and the museum opened to the public in 1990.
Some 1,300 objects are displayed across the rooms, terraces and gardens, deliberately mixed rather than sorted by origin: pre-Hispanic ceramics, African and Oceanic sculpture, Mexican colonial furniture and religious painting, Indian and Asian textiles, folk art and twentieth-century works. Painters represented include Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo and Brady himself. The kitchen, bathrooms and bar are shown as furnished, and two planted courtyards with pools are open to visitors. The museum runs guided tours in Spanish and English by arrangement.
Highlights
- Rooms preserved exactly as Robert Brady arranged them
- Around 1,300 objects from Mexico, Africa, Asia and Oceania
- Works by Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo and Brady himself
- Two planted courtyards with pools beside the cathedral precinct
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