Museo Soumaya
The Museo Soumaya is a private museum with free admission located in Mexico City, which contains a wide range of works of art, religious relics, historical documents and the collection of coins of Carlos Slim and his late wife Soumaya, from which the name the museum. Founded in 1994, the museum is in fact owned by Carlos Slim Foundation and, with more than 66,000 works of art within it, is a must for art lovers and for those who are still heading to Mexico City. Inside the museum, visitors can admire the masterpieces of many famous European artists from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, especially the larger sculptures that are located outside of France by Auguste Rodin, French sculptor who lived in between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and which was Soumaya admirer. In addition to preserving the works of Mexican art, the museum contains the largest collection of coins in the world of pre-Hispanic and colonial. Among the masterpieces of other European artists, visitors can also admire the works of Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Joan Miro, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Bartolome Esteban Murillo and others. |