Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez

The Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez occupies the Ex-Seminario Conciliar, an imposing eighteenth-century religious college a few minutes' walk northeast of Plaza de Armas and, by area, one of the largest colonial buildings in Zacatecas. Converted to a museum in 1998, it holds several hundred works by Manuel Felguérez, the Zacatecas-born sculptor and painter who became a central figure in Mexico's mid-twentieth-century abstract art movement (the so-called Generación de la Ruptura), alongside pieces by other Mexican and international abstract artists gathered into a broad survey of non-figurative art across the twentieth century. The former seminary's large vaulted halls, arcaded corridors and stone stairwells give the abstract paintings and geometric sculptures an unusually monumental setting, and the scale of the building allows the museum to display large-format works that would crowd a smaller gallery. A visit runs an hour to ninety minutes. The museum sits close to the cathedral and Plaza de Armas, making it easy to combine with a walking tour of the historic center's other churches and museums.