Designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito, the Museo Internacional del Barroco stands out strikingly against the volcanic landscape surrounding Puebla, the building’s fascinating white shapes surrounded by pools of water. Inside, the exhibition halls, like all the other rooms, are spacious, wonderfully lit, and modular so as to accommodate any kind of exhibition.
In 2017, just a year after the museum opened, its director Jorge Lozoya, who had visited the successful Museo del Violino (MdV) exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix in 2016, invited the MdV to produce a similar exhibition for the Mexican public.