Punta Mita Art and Culture

This is the home of the Huichol Indians, one of the last remaining links to pre-Columbian times.  The members of this tribe who live high in the Sierra Madre Mountains have kept alive the language, traditions and customs of their unique culture.  Huichol artists use peyote to invoke messages from their ancestors in the form of colorful visions, and they manifest these visions in beautiful yarn paintings, bowls and beaded masks.   There are Huichol galleries in downtown Puerto Vallarta where you can learn more about the people and their art, or you can take a tour of a Huichol village to experience their culture first-hand.

Puerto Vallarta is home to several fine art galleries and museums that display paintings and sculptures from artists all over Mexico.

Gallería Dante

Classical, contemporary, and abstract works by more than 50 Mexican and international artists are displayed and sold in this 6,000-square-foot gallery—PV's largest—and sculpture garden.

• Address: Calle Basilio Badillo 269, Col. E. Zapata, Puerto Vallarta, 48380
• Phone: 322/222-2477

Sergio Bustamante

Internationally known Sergio Bustamante—the creator of life-size brass, copper, and ceramic animals, mermaids, suns, and moons—has a team of artisans to execute his never-ending pantheon of creative and quirky objets d'art, such as pots shaped like human torsos that sell for more than US$1,000. Paintings, purses, shoes, and jewelry are sold here as well. It's across the street from the statue by the same artist, on the malecón.

• Address: Av. Juárez 275 , at Calle Corona, Centro, Puerto Vallarta, 48300
• Phone: 322/223-1405
• www.sergiobustamante.com.mx