All art museums and attractions to visit in Mexico City

Mexico City (Mexico) has a lot to offer for art lovers. Below we list all 17 art museums that are located in Mexico City.

Do you like art and are you looking for the best art museums to visit in Mexico City? These are the ones:

  1. Frida Kahlo Museum1

    Frida Kahlo Museum

    Mexico City
    The Frida Kahlo Museum ( Spanish : Museo Frida Kahlo ), also known as the Blue House ( La Casa Azul ) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo . It is located in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood
  2. Palace of Fine Arts2

    Palace of Fine Arts

    Mexico City
    The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts ) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City . It has hosted notable events in music, dance, theatre, opera and literature in Mexico and has held important exhibitions of painting, sculpture and photography. Consequently, the Palacio de Bellas Arte
  3. Diego Rivera Mural Museum3

    Diego Rivera Mural Museum

    Mexico City
    Museo Mural Diego Rivera is a museum in Mexico City where Diego Rivera 's 1946–47 mural Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central is located.
  4. Soumaya Museum4

    Soumaya Museum

    Mexico City
    The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica , 19th- and 20th-century Mexican a
  5. Museum of Modern Art5

    Museum of Modern Art

    Mexico City
    The Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art) is located in Chapultepec park, Mexico City , Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists. The museum also hosts a permanent collection
  6. National Art Museum6

    National Art Museum

    Mexico City
    The Museo Nacional de Arte ( MUNAL ) (English: National Museum of Art ) is the Mexican national art museum, located in the historical center of Mexico City . The museum is housed in a neoclassical building at No. 8 Tacuba, Col. Centro, Mexico City. It includes a large collection representing the his
  7. Palacio de Cultura Banamex – Palacio Iturbide7

    Palacio de Cultura Banamex – Palacio Iturbide

    Mexico City
    The Palace of Iturbide (1779 to 1785) is a large palatial residence located in the historic center of Mexico City at Madero Street #17. It was built by the Count of San Mateo Valparaíso as a wedding gift for his daughter. It gained the name “Palace of Iturbide” because Agustín de Iturbide lived ther
  8. Museo Tamayo8

    Museo Tamayo

    Mexico City
    Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public contemporary art museum located in Mexico City 's Chapultepec Park , that produces contemporary art exhibitions, using its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as artworks from the collection of its founder, the artist Rufino Tamayo .
  9. Dolores Olmedo Museum9

    Dolores Olmedo Museum

    Mexico City
    The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum ) is an art museum in Xochimilco , Mexico City , based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo . The museum will be relocated to Chapultepec in 2024.
  10. National Museum of San Carlos10

    National Museum of San Carlos

    Mexico City
    The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos ) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City . The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista , a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50
  11. Anahuacalli Museum11

    Anahuacalli Museum

    Mexico City
    The Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum is a museum and arts center in Mexico City , located in the San Pablo de Tepetlapa neighborhood of Coyoacán , 10 minutes by car from the Frida Kahlo Museum , as well as from the tourist neighborhood of this district. The Anahuacalli (from the Nahuatl word, whose m
  12. Museo Jumex12

    Museo Jumex

    Mexico City
    The largest private contemporary art collection in Latin America.
  13. Academy of San Carlos13

    Academy of San Carlos

    Mexico City
  14. Arte Carrillo Gil Museum14

    Arte Carrillo Gil Museum

    Mexico City
  15. Cultural Center Casa Lamm15

    Cultural Center Casa Lamm

    Mexico City
    The Casa Lamm Cultural Center is the best known landmark in Colonia Roma . It was a house built in the early 20th century when Colonia Roma was a new neighborhood for the wealthy leaving the historic center of Mexico City . In the 1990s, the house was restored to open as a cultural center in 1994, w
  16. José Luis Cuevas Museum16

    José Luis Cuevas Museum

    Mexico City
    The José Luis Cuevas Museum is located just off the Zócalo within the Historic center of Mexico City , in Mexico City , Mexico. The museum and Church of Santa Inés were built as parts of the Convent of Santa Inés ( Agnes of Rome ) complex. The museum is in the convent's colonial era residential hall
  17. University Museum of Contemporary Art17

    University Museum of Contemporary Art

    Mexico City

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