Museo Casa Zapata, Anenecuilco

Museo Casa Zapata preserves the restored adobe-and-straw house in Anenecuilco, Ayala municipality, where Emiliano Zapata was born in 1879 and raised within the village's communal landholding tradition. The museum's core narrative centers on the long-running land dispute between Anenecuilco's peasant farmers and the expanding sugar haciendas of Porfirian-era Morelos, a conflict in which Zapata, elected head of the village's council of elders (calpuleque) in 1909, played a leading role defending the community's communal land titles, or calpullalli. That local struggle escalated into the broader agrarian demands articulated in the 1911 Plan de Ayala, the manifesto Zapata issued calling for the redistribution of hacienda lands to peasant villages, which became the ideological foundation of the Zapatista movement during the Mexican Revolution. The house itself, rebuilt after earthquake damage using traditional adobe and thatch construction techniques consistent with the original structure, displays period agricultural tools, photographs of Zapata and his family, and reproductions of village land documents central to the dispute. A small adjoining plaza commemorates Zapata's birthplace with a monument, and the surrounding village of Anenecuilco retains much of its rural character, giving visitors a direct sense of the agrarian setting that shaped Zapata's politics. The museum is administered as part of INAH's network of Revolution-era historic sites in Morelos.