Museo de Arte Sacro

Cuernavaca


In the main cathedral of Cuernavaca is the small Museo de Arte Sacro, a museum (opened in 2018) displaying 92 pieces of religious paintings, ornaments and sculptures from the 16th to 20th centuries.


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