The Museo Robert Brady occupies the Casa de la Torre, a 16th-century former Franciscan convent attached to the cathedral complex. The American artist and collector Robert Brady transformed it over three decades into one of the most extraordinary private residences in Mexico — every surface covered with art, textiles, religious objects, pre-Columbian pieces, African masks, and Mexican folk art, all arranged with an interior designer's eye for colour and form.
The collection spans five continents and six centuries and yet feels entirely coherent. Room after room is a study in how a particular sensibility — playful, eclectic, deeply colour-conscious — can bring wildly different objects into dialogue with each other. It is the kind of museum where you return to notice something you missed. Brady's own paintings hang alongside works by Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo.