History Museum
this museum was built during the years of 1885 to
1889 and became a customs house for many years, before becoming the
outstanding museum that is now is. It is one of the few examples of
Victorian architecture left in the state of Juarez and is considered
to be quite characteristic of the Porfirio Diaz period. The
president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, in 1909, would host a banquet
for the then President of the United States, William H. Taft in the
structure's central hall, and become the first meeting between the
two Presidents ever. The rooms and halls had been elaborately
decorated for the Mexican Independence Centennial in 1910, but would
become marred by the resignation of Diaz within a year, in this very
building. After the huge and deciding battle of Ciudad Juarez in
1911, the peace treaties giving the victory to the Mexican
Revolution would be signed by Francisco Madero in the building, with
such famous legends as Poncho Villa, Pascual Orozco and others would
become part of the siege of the city and end the ten year war for
independence. It opened as the Ciudad Juarez Museum of History in
1990 with a permanent exhibit of pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish
conquistadors, the Spanish Vice-Royalty, Independence, the
Reformation and the Porfirio Diaz period; and the last two halls are
devoted to the Mexican Revolution.
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