Sharon Zaga - Museo Memoria y Tolerancia Museum

“We are a place who promotes awareness and human equality."

By Jessica Servín Castillo
3rd of november 2025

Sharon Zaga was 16 years old when she decided that her life would be dedicated to making this “museum” and as the years passed, coincidences and fortune, allowed her to carry out her dream into a reality.

“We are 13 years old and I have been able to see how people and students learn and create awareness about human dignity. We are not a museum, we are a place that promotes an experience of what we human beings are”, says the director of this precinct located in the Downtown and who, on this occasion, in addition to inviting us to know it, reveals her favorite places in Mexico City. 

How do you define CDMX?

I love this city and I define it by its people. 

What is your most special outdoor space in the city?

The Bosque de Chapultepec, I go there every Sunday, I walk there and I move to other worlds.

If a friend from abroad visits you, where do you take her for breakfast?

To Matisse restaurant, I love it.

What is your favorite museum in the city?

I like all the museums, but my favorite is the Franz Mayer, it has unique cultural richness.

What area or neighborhood of the CDMX do you like to walk?

The Downtown

What is your favorite coffee shop?

To Catamundi restaurant in Polanco, it’s very nice and I like their coffee.

What do you think are the 3 must-see places in the city that every visitor should visit?

Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, the Basilica of Guadalupe and Frida Kahlo’s Blue House.

Finally, Sharon Zaga tells us that this June two exhibitions will open at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, the first, as every year, about the International LGBTTIQ+ Pride Day and the second, the exhibition of women where the struggle to live free and equal lives is vindicated.

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About the author:
Jessica Servín Castillo
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