Experts' Choice Award Museo Historico Casa de Juarez
What the experts agree on
This modest house museum traces Benito Juárez's transformative youth—where the orphaned indigenous boy arrived as a servant and eventually became Mexico's reformist president, offering intimate insight into his humble beginnings.
“This modest museum occupies the house where Benito Juárez first lived when he came to the city as a servant boy.”
– Frommer's
Fodor's "After he was orphaned, 12-year-old Benito Juárez, the future Mexican president and the first indigenous one, walked to Oaxaca from his village in the mountains." Full review
Lonely Planet "The simple house of bookbinder Antonio Salanueva, who supported the great 19th-century Mexican leader Benito Juárez during his youth." Full review
