Museo Soumaya
Mexico City · founded 1994
The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Loreto opened in 1994 and Plaza Carso opened in 2011. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, 19th- and 20th-century Mexican art and an extensive repertoire of works by European old masters and masters of modern western art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto. It is called one of the most complete collections of its kind.
- Visitors a year
- 2.3MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1994Founded
What to see
The Kiss
Auguste Rodin, 1880.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Gates of Hell
Auguste Rodin, 1880.
At the museum · Photo by Till Niermann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Jean d'Aire
Auguste Rodin, 1885.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Mary Magdalene as Melancholy
Artemisia Gentileschi, 1620.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Shade
Auguste Rodin, 1880.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The succubus
Auguste Rodin, 1889.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.museosoumaya.org before you travel.
Getting there
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On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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