iOpened in 2011 and designed by Fernando Romero, the Plaza Carso flagship of Museo Soumaya (Fundación Carlos Slim) is sheathed in 16,000 hexagonal aluminium tiles. Its six galleries and triple-height vestibule draw on a collection of more than 66,000 works spanning 30 centuries, including one of the world's largest holdings of Auguste Rodin, European Old Masters, New Spain painting, Impressionism and modern Mexican art by Rivera and Tamayo. Admission is free.
"Beauty and Redemption": late-Gothic, Mannerist and Baroque Old Master paintings and sculpture from the Soumaya collection tracing Christ's Passion, death and Resurrection.
"Colours of Identity": Mexican folk art, Montenegro, Rivera and Tamayo, calendar chromos and football memorabilia, marking Mexico's third World Cup in 2026.

Gallery 3: Flemish, Spanish, German, Italian and French Old Masters (13th-19th c.) in dialogue with painters of New Spain: sacred history, portraits and daily life.
Gallery 5: "20 Centuries of Art in Mexico", 1,521 works from Mesoamerica through the Baroque, historic documents and chromos to 20th-century avant-gardes.

Gallery 6, the top-floor sculpture hall: Rodin's major projects, myths and fragments, and the generation he shaped, from one of the world's largest Rodin holdings.

Gallery 1: phonographs, music boxes, telegraphs, early telephones incl. a Bell prototype, stereoscopes and Belle Époque fashion and painting charting modern technology.

Gallery 4: landscape from 19th-century traveller-artists in Mexico through Impressionism to the early-20th-century avant-gardes.

Triple-height lobby with Rodin's Gates of Hell (the only cast in Latin America) and The Thinker, Botticelli, Rivera's last mural Río Juchitán and Tamayo's Day and Night.
Bulevar Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303, esquina Presa Falcón, Ampliación Granada, Miguel Hidalgo, 11529 Ciudad de México, Mexico
Nearest station: San Joaquín (Metro Line 7), Polanco (Metro Line 7) and Antara (Metrobús Line 7)
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