Palace of the Inquisition

The Palace of the Inquisition is a building in Mexico City built in the 1730s as the headquarters of the Mexican Inquisition, which now houses the Museum of Mexican Medicine. The building stands at the junction of República de Brasil and República de Venezuela streets, with its entrance at a canted corner facing Santo Domingo Plaza. When the Inquisition was abolished after the Mexican War of Independence, the building's association made it difficult to convert to other purposes. It eventually became the School of Medicine for the reconstructed National University, now the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). When UNAM moved to the Ciudad Universitaria in the 1950s, it retained ownership of the building, eventually converting it into the museum it is today.