Casa Museo Vicente Guerrero, Tixtla

The Casa Museo Vicente Guerrero occupies the house in Tixtla traditionally identified as the birthplace of Vicente Guerrero in 1782, the insurgent general who became Mexico's second president in 1829 and for whom the state of Guerrero is named. Guerrero rose through the ranks of the independence movement under Morelos after 1810, continued the insurgency during its most difficult years after Morelos's execution, and negotiated the 1821 Plan de Iguala with Agustín de Iturbide that secured Mexican independence from Spain. As president, he issued a decree abolishing slavery in Mexico in September 1829, before being overthrown and executed the following year. The house museum, restored and adapted for public exhibition, preserves period rooms furnished to evoke a provincial household of Guerrero's era, alongside exhibition rooms displaying documents, portraits, weapons, and other memorabilia tracing his military campaigns and political career. The curatorial approach is broadly biographical and chronological, guiding visitors from his birth and early life in Tixtla through the independence war and into his presidency and the abolition decree. Modest in scale compared to Mexico City's national history museums, the museum functions primarily as a regional site tied to local and state identity, with restoration work focused on maintaining the colonial-era house structure rather than large-scale expansion.