The Casa de Benito Juárez has four rooms
that serve as permanent exhibition rooms, dedicated to
ethnographic works from Mexico and Mesoamerica. You can see some
Mexican ceramics from the 17th and 18th centuries, found in
archeological excavations in Old Havana. There are also textiles
from the pre-Columbian time, real folk art, collections of
silver- and copperwork, and a collection of engravings, work of
some artists from Veracruz, as well as several writings in the
Mesoamerican language that consist of mixed ideograms and
pictogram, that were produced in the bark animal skins or trees.
The Alfonso Reyes library has a wide
bibliographic collection with more than seven thousand texts on
history, art and traditions of Mexico. Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a
Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for
the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. One can find the
complete collection of the magazine Arqueología Mexicana and
numerous copies of the literary magazine El Hijo Prodigo in this
library.