The Amparo Museum is a private institution founded in memory of Amparo Rugarcía de Espinosa in 1991 by Manuel Espinosa Yglesias and his daughter Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias Rugarcía through the Amparo Foundation, with the commitment to preserve, investigate, exhibit and disseminate pre-Hispanic art, viceregal, modern and contemporary of Mexico. The Amparo Museum is considered one of the most important cultural and exhibition centers in Mexico. It has rooms for the exhibition of its collection of pre-Hispanic art, one of the most important in Mexico in a private institution. In addition to the collection of viceregal and 19th and 20th century works of art, it presents a permanent program of national and international temporary exhibitions, as well as a program of academic, artistic, educational and recreational activities aimed at all types of audiences.