Finding Aid for the Peter Rodriguez Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers 1975 - 2001

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Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Peter Rodriguez Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1975 - 2001

Collection number: 35

Creator: Rodriguez, Peter

Extent: one linear foot

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract: Peter Rodriguez was raised in both Stockton and Jackson, California. It was there that he first became interested in Art. In 1975, he founded the Mexican Museum as an institution designed to collect, preserve, interpret and present the artistic expression of the Mexican people, regardless of their birth-nation. The unique goal was to establish a museum that showed all five components of Pre-Conquest, Colonial, Popular, Mexican and Chicano Contemporary Art.

Rodriguez envisioned a Museum as both a space in which to preserve and present the culture of the Mexican people, and as a vehicle for Mexican people themselves to present their own culture.

During the Museum's first ten years of operation, Rodriguez devoted his full energy to the daily museum operations. The dual role of director and curator left little time for his own painting. As the Museum grew in size and maturity, it began to attract the attention of a broad scope of individuals and the museum began to form a permanent collection. As the collection grew, so did the number and scope of exhibitions presented by the Museum to the public.

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Physical location: This collection is currently stored at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center archive. In the future the collection will be stored at the UCLA Southern Regional Library Facility.

Language of Material: Collection materials in English, Spanish

Access

Access is available by appointment for UCLA student and faculty researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the collection or any part of it, please contact the archivist at archivist@chicano.ucla.edu or the librarian at yretter@chicano.ucla.edu

Publication Rights

For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Peter Rodriguez Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers, 35, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.

Acquisition Information

This collection is a part of the Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers.

Biography

Peter Rodriguez was raised in both Stockton and Jackson, California. It was there that he first became interested in Art. In 1975, he founded the Mexican Museum as an institution designed to collect, preserve, interpret and present the artistic expression of the Mexican people, regardless of their birth-nation. The unique goal was to establish a museum that showed all five components of Pre-Conquest, Colonial, Popular, Mexican and Chicano Contemporary Art.

Rodriguez envisioned a Museum as both a space in which to preserve and present the culture of the Mexican people, and as a vehicle for mexican people themselves to present their own culture.

During the Museum's first ten years of operation, Rodriguez devoted his full energy to the daily museum operations. The dual role of director and curator left little time for his own painting. As the Museum grew in size and maturity, it began to attract the attention of a broad scope of individuals and the museum began to form a permanent collection. As the collection grew, so did the number and scope of exhibitions presented by the Museum to the public.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of one linear foot of papers, mainly published items relating to Mexican Museum of San Francisco and other subjects relating to the Mexican and Latin American arts.

Related Material

Peter Rodriguez personal papers related to the Mexican Museum.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Latin American Art

Mexican art

The Mexican Museum of San Francisco

Box 1, Folder 1

Pedro Rodriguez Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers 1999