San Francisco is getting another cultural treasure - a world-class museum to showcase the largest collection of Mexican and Latino art in the nation.
Groundbreaking is set for Tuesday for the new Mexican Museum - the realization of a dream by Mexican-American artist Peter Rodriguez, who opened the city's first museum for Latino art in a Mission District storefront in 1975.
Rodriguez started a collection that now has more than 16,000 pre-Columbian, colonial and contemporary works of Mexican and Latino art.
Rodriguez, who died July 1 at 90, never lost hope the unique museum would be built . . .
