Museo Soumaya
Mexico City · Mexico · Founded 2011
A free, strikingly beautiful museum in Mexico City, housing the world's largest private collection of Rodin sculptures and one of the most important art collections in Latin America.
About Museo Soumaya
The Museo Soumaya is a private museum founded by billionaire Carlos Slim Helú as a tribute to his late wife, Soumaya Domit. The current building — designed by Slim's son-in-law Fernando Romero — opened in 2011 in the Polanco district. Its curving, hexagonal steel form clad in 16,000 aluminium hexagons has become one of the most iconic buildings in Mexico City.
The collection of more than 66,000 works spans 30 centuries of art, from pre-Columbian artefacts to 20th-century European and Mexican masters. The museum holds the largest private collection of works by Auguste Rodin outside of France — including major bronzes — as well as works by Dalí, Tintoretto, Rubens, El Greco, and an exceptional collection of Mexican colonial art. Admission is entirely free.
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