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Established in 1958 by six locals, the tiny museum has a permanent collection that holds works from such figures as Francisco Goya, Mary Cassatt, Ansel Adams and Pablo Picasso, along with contemporary artists like Zanele Muholi, Graciela Iturbide and James Turrell.

Agustín de Iturbide, a general in the War of Independence, was the first to taste one.

A hundred years before Iturbide’s mouth watered over chiles en nogada, a nun at Santa Rosa invented the thick brown mole sauce, which is often served over turkey or chicken.

All are served up to the public through a privacy-maintaining rotating device similar to the ones used in the time of Iturbide.

One legend traces the dish to Augustine nuns at Puebla’s Santa Mónica convent, who supposedly created it on Aug. 28, 1821, to honor Mexico’s first emperor, Gen. Agustín de Iturbide.