Casa de los Hermanos Serdán

The Casa de los Hermanos Serdán is one of the most important sites in the history of the Mexican Revolution that rocked all of Mexico between 1910 and 1920. The Puebla home of the Serdán family, many of them were actively organizing, supporting, and promoting the revolutionary cause when the authorities responded. The house itself was attacked in 1910 by city police in a dark moment that would give way to hundreds of others in a rollicking disruption to everything the young republic knew as normal life at that time. Brothers, Aquiles Serdán and Máximo Serdán both died during the initial attack, and more than 18 others fell on the same day. 

Today, the house operates as a Regional Museum that presents informative and detailed exhibitions on the entire Revolutionary period and on the lives of the family who lived here. The building dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries easily qualifying it already for monumental status. Don Roque Serdán, a prosperous industrialist from Veracruz, acquired the building and eventually left it to his son Manuel, a merchant of notoriously liberal ideas. President Francisco I. Madero later stayed in the home in tribute to the Serdán family, but the long war saw it eventually abandoned and used for a tenement and commercial space. In 1960, it was officially converted to a museum by the federal and state governments.

Touring the 26 rooms is an immersive experience. No fewer than ten spaces on the ground floor, provide key insight into the daily life of the period for the family. Though more than 100 years have passed since then, you'll see, it was not that different. The upper floors present some 16 themed rooms to to give you a better idea of the Porfiriato period, the anti-reelection movement, and the dramatic events of November 18 and 19, 1910 in Puebla, and thereafter in the entire country.

The museum is one of the most dramatic in the Historic Center of Puebla and many guests will visit as part of a walking tour through the surrounding streets. Although plainly and pleasantly repainted over the course of the last century, the facade still defiantly bears the scars, bullet holes, that mark the first of many struggles to follow. Guests to the museum are invited to guided tours in both Spanish and English. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions, book presentations, film screenings and frequent events that relate to the Revolution and other important events in the history of Mexico.