Museo Casa Juárez

It housed the constitutional government of President Benito Juárez during his stay in Chihuahua while Maximilian of Habsburg reigned as Emperor of Mexico, supported by the French, and was thus the de facto National Palace of Mexico.

On October 12, 1864, President Benito Juárez, fleeing from the French invasion, arrived in the city where he established his government-in-exile.

He left Chihuahua when the French forces and the Second Mexican Empire had been almost totally defeated.

In 1972, during the observance of the centenary of the death of Benito Juárez, the authorities decided to turn the building into a museum.

In 2000 the restoration was complete and the renamed Museo de la Lealtad Republicana was opened to the public.