Museo Soumaya, Art museum in Polanco district, Mexico
The museum building rises across six floors with an exterior clad in 17,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles that reflect sunlight throughout the day, giving the structure its distinctive silver appearance and curved asymmetrical shape.
The museum opened in March 2011 at Plaza Carso, replacing the original 1994 location at Plaza Loreto that had been built on the site of a former paper mill to house the expanding art collection.
The collection brings together 66,000 artworks ranging from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures to European masters, including paintings by Tintoretto, Van Gogh and Mexican artists like Diego Rivera, representing different epochs of art history.
Located in western Mexico City, the museum offers free admission to all visitors and contains the most extensive private collection of Auguste Rodin sculptures outside France, featuring numerous bronze casts of his major works.
The museum carries the name of Soumaya Domit, the late wife of founder Carlos Slim. Its collection spans three millennia, with works distributed between both museum locations in the Mexican capital.
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