MUSEO SOUMAYA, Ciudad de México

MUSEO SOUMAYA
Plaza Carso
Ciudad de México

The museum building was designed by Mexican architect Fernando Romero, with the advice of Ove Arup and Frank Gehry. It has an area of 17,000 square meters. Its structure is made up of 28 curved steel columns of different diameters and seven rings or perimeter beams that provide stability. It has a height of 46 meters and was inaugurated on 29 March 2011. It houses a collection of around 70,000 works of art from all periods, among which the pieces from the Carlos Slim Foundation stand out. Highlights include the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, the impressionists Monet, Renoir and Degas, the European Old Masters (El Greco, Tintoretto, Brueghel, Cranach, Zurbarán and Murillo) and the New Spain Old Masters (Correa, Villalpando and Cabrera). It has the only works by Vincent Van Gogh in Mexico. Likewise, it exhibits Mexican-made work by José María Velasco, Agustín Arrieta, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.

Gracias a F. Rodríguez G.