Casa Luis Barragán
12 Calle General Francisco Ramírez, Daniel Garza, Miguel Hidalgo, 11840, Mexico
Casa Luis Barragán is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the private residence of Mexico's most important architect — a masterpiece of emotional architecture where light, colour, water, and silence are used as building materials alongside concrete and wood.
Museo de Arte Moderno
Paseo de La Reforma, Lomas de Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, 11000, Mexico
The Museum of Modern Art sits in Chapultepec Park and houses the most important collection of 20th-century Mexican art — including Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas,' one of the most recognisable paintings in Latin American art, and significant works by Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo, and the generation of artists who made Mexico one of the most important centres of 20th-century art.
Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul)
Londres 247, Del Carmen, Coyoacán, Mexico City
The Casa Azul (Blue House) is where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, painted, suffered, and died — a cobalt-blue colonial house in Coyoacán that has been preserved as a museum since 1958 and has become the most visited museum in Mexico City.
Museo Jumex
Blvd. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303, Polanco, Mexico City
Museo Jumex is Mexico's most important contemporary art museum — a sawtooth-roofed building designed by British architect David Chipperfield that sits next to the Museo Soumaya in Polanco and houses the collection of Eugenio López Alonso, heir to the Jumex juice fortune and Latin America's most significant contemporary art collector.
Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)
Tacuba 8, Centro Histórico, Mexico City
MUNAL (Museo Nacional de Arte) is Mexico's national art museum — housed in a sumptuous neoclassical building designed by Italian architect Silvio Contri and completed in 1911, with a collection spanning 500 years of Mexican art from the colonial period to the mid-20th century.
Museo Rufino Tamayo
51 Paseo de La Reforma, Bosque de Chapultepec I, Miguel Hidalgo, 11580, Mexico
The Rufino Tamayo Museum is one of the finest contemporary art museums in Latin America — a brutalist concrete building set among the trees of Chapultepec Park that houses the personal collection of Oaxacan painter Rufino Tamayo alongside rotating exhibitions of international contemporary art.
Museo Soumaya
303 Boulevard Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, Granada, Miguel Hidalgo, 11520, Mexico
The Museo Soumaya is Carlos Slim's gift to Mexico City — a 46-metre-tall museum shaped like a warped silver anvil, covered in 16,000 hexagonal aluminium tiles, and housing the billionaire's private art collection of over 66,000 works.
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Plaza Juárez, Atlampa, Cuauhtémoc, 06450, Mexico
The Palacio de Bellas Artes is the most important cultural building in Mexico — an Art Nouveau and Art Deco masterpiece of white Carrara marble that took 30 years to build (1904-1934), sank over a metre into the soft lake bed during construction, and houses some of the most significant murals in the Western Hemisphere.
Palacio Nacional
Plaza de La Constitución, Tlalpan Centro, Tlalpan, 14000, Mexico
The Palacio Nacional occupies the entire east side of the Zócalo — a 200-metre-long colonial building that sits on the site of Moctezuma's palace, was the seat of the Spanish viceroys for 300 years, and now houses the offices of the President of Mexico.
San Ángel
Plaza San Jacinto, San Ángel, Mexico City
San Ángel is Mexico City's most picturesque colonial neighbourhood — a hillside district of cobblestone streets, stone walls, and flowering gardens that was a separate village until the city swallowed it in the 20th century.
UNAM Campus (Ciudad Universitaria)
Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico
The UNAM campus (Ciudad Universitaria) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most important examples of 20th-century architecture in the Americas — a planned university city built in the early 1950s that integrated modernist architecture with Mexican muralism in a way that no other campus has matched.
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