Casa Humboldt (Museo de Arte Virreinal), Taxco

Casa Humboldt is an 18th-century colonial house named for a brief 1803 stopover by the Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt during his extended scientific expedition through New Spain, though he is not known to have owned or lived in the building beyond that stay. The house is notable for its ornate facade combining Mudejar-influenced geometric tile and plaster ornamentation with Baroque elements, standing out among Taxco's colonial buildings for this decorative blend. Since its restoration, the building has operated as the Museo de Arte Virreinal, displaying colonial-era religious art, sculpture, and liturgical objects that illustrate Taxco's development as a wealthy mining town under Spanish rule, including pieces connected to the Santa Prisca parish and other local churches. The museum's galleries are arranged thematically around religious art and colonial craftsmanship rather than strictly chronologically, with rooms dedicated to painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the viceregal period. Restoration of the building focused on stabilizing and cleaning the elaborate facade ornamentation and adapting the interior's colonial-era rooms for display cases and controlled lighting, while retaining the original floor plan and structural walls.