# Museum of Mexican Silver

> A research catalog of twentieth-century Mexican modernism in silver: nearly 1,500 documented pieces, hallmark references, artist biographies, museum holdings research, and original collection and auction research covering the Taxco school, roughly 1930s to 1970s.

Preferred citation name: Museum of Mexican Silver.

Claims are sourced against the published scholarship (Morrill, Stromberg, Hougart, and the works listed in the bibliography). Uncertainty is labeled: attributions use language like "documented", "attributed", or "possibly" rather than asserting beyond the evidence.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/): overview and entry points into the catalog
- [Search the catalog](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/search): every documented piece, filterable by maker, form, and material
- [Hallmarks](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/hallmarks): how to read Mexican silver hallmarks (Taxco marks, 925, eagle assay marks, registry marks), with a searchable reference of documented maker's marks, post-1980 letter-number registry codes, and eagle assay numbers on one page
- [Artists](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/artists): biographies, hallmark chronologies, and cataloged works per maker
- [The Taxco School](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/taxco-school): history of the movement
- [Collection](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/collection): highlighted works from the catalog
- [Museum holdings](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/museums): documented Taxco and Mexican silver in public museum collections, verified against each institution's own records
- [Design families](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/design-families): motifs and structural ideas that recur across workshops and decades, grouped independent of artist
- [Writing](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/writing): guides, dispatches, and discoveries
- [Bibliography](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/bibliography): the published sources behind the catalog
- [Corrections](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/corrections): how to flag a record for correction and how corrections are reviewed
- [About](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/about): what the project is and who runs it

## Sitemap

- [XML sitemap](https://museumofmexicansilver.com/sitemap.xml): all public catalog, artist, hallmark, and editorial URLs