Museo del Agrarismo, Ex Hacienda de Chinameca

Museo del Agrarismo occupies part of the Ex Hacienda de Chinameca, the site where Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government forces on April 10, 1919, and was opened in 2010 to mark the centennial of the Mexican Revolution. Rather than focusing narrowly on the assassination itself, the museum situates the event within a broader history of agrarian reform in Mexico, tracing the land-redistribution demands of Zapata's 1911 Plan de Ayala through the eventual national ejido land-reform programs implemented by later administrations. Exhibits include photographs and documents relating to Zapata's death at the hacienda gate, alongside interpretive material on the decades-long legal and political process by which peasant land claims were eventually addressed at a national level. The museum's location within the hacienda's surviving colonial-era structure, including sections of the original courtyard where the ambush occurred, gives the exhibition a direct physical connection to the events it describes, reinforced by a bronze statue near the entrance marking the approximate assassination site. The museum draws its heaviest visitation each April 10, when commemorative events mark the anniversary of Zapata's death and reaffirm Chinameca's significance to Mexico's agrarian political memory.