Mexico Guide
Oaxaca
Museo Casa de Juárez
Address: García Vigil 609
Opening time: Tues– Sat 10am–7pm
Price: M$35, free on Sun
The Museo Casa de Juárez) is where Oaxaca's most famous son, Benito Juárez, once worked for bookbinder Antonio Salanueva. The renovated house contains a small collection of the young Zapotec's possessions along with seminal historical documents. Wander through the kitchen, bedroom and dining area exhibits to get an idea of what life must have been like for the middle class in early nineteenth-century Oaxaca. The workshop displays bookbinding materials.