About Museo Soumaya

The Museo Soumaya is a non-profit private museum in Mexico City. It was established in 1994 in Plaza Loreto by Lebanese-Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu and named after his late wife Soumaya Domit Gemayel. The museum holds the largest collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside France collected by Carlos Slim since the 1980s on the advice of his wife. The Museum boasts of a collection of over 66,000 pieces of art. The museum has received heritage recognition from ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) in 1996. In 2011, Carlos Slim constructed an architectural landmark building called Plaza Carso, a 6-story, 16,000-square-meter building, externally clad with aluminum tiles into which the main collection was shifted from Plaza Loreto. The new building houses art galleries, a library, a restaurant, and a 350-seat auditorium. The museum has an average of one million visitors per year.

Must See

  • The architecture of the structure
  • The Gate of Hell
  • The Thinker by Auguste Rodin 
  • Pieta, cast in bronze in the 19th Century by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry from the original marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • The last mural by Diego Rivera
  • Still life, Day and Night by Rufino Tamayo
  • Collection of coins and other monetary items dating from the Viceroyalty to the post-revolutionary era
  • Asian ivory artworks
  • Silk and precious stones
  • Works by European artists such as El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Murillo
  • 19th Century daily life impressions of Mexico by Chapman, Rugendas, Egerton, Linati, Baron Gros, Löhr, Landesio and Velasco, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Vlaminck, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miró
  • Works by Camille Claudel and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
  • Surrealist sculptures by Salvador Dalí 

How to reach

Metro Polanco Line 7 leads right to the stop near the museum. 

Tips

  • Don't carry any liquids/lighters inside the museum, as they are not allowed.
  • Also, all baggage needs to be deposited with the security at the entrance. However, backpacks are allowed if worn on the chest.
  • Take an elevator to the top floor and take the ramp while coming down to see the exhibits on all the floors.
  • There are no emergency exits on the top floors, so you are at your own risk when you enter this building.
  • All the inscriptions are in the Spanish language.

Visit Time

Sunday: 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Monday: 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Saturday: 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Entrance Fee

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Time you can spend

2 to 3 hours

 

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Weather

Heavy Intensity Rain 21.78°C

 

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