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Built from dark volcanic stone in the form of a brooding pyramid-temple, the Anahuacalli Museum in the south of Mexico City was conceived by the muralist Diego Rivera to house his vast personal collection of pre-Hispanic art and to stand as a monument to the indigenous heritage of Mexico. Rivera spent much of his fortune and the latter part of his life gathering some sixty thousand ancient objects, and he designed the building himself, drawing on Aztec, Maya and Teotihuacan architecture to creat...