Museo Soumaya | |
 Exterior of the Plaza Carso building, 2014 | |
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| Location | Nuevo Polanco, Mexico City |
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| Coordinates | 19°26′26.5″N 99°12′17.0″W / 19.440694°N 99.204722°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | ICOM; Mexican ILM; FEMAM |
| Collection size | 66,000+ |
| Visitors | 1.1 million (2013)[1]
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| Founder | Carlos Slim |
| Director | Alfonso Miranda |
| Owner | Carlos Slim Foundation |
| Public transit access | Polanco and San Joaquín metro stations (both at distance) |
| Website | www |
Building details | |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Fernando Romero |
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 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.[2][3]
The museum is named after Soumaya Domit, who died in 1999, and was the wife of the founder of the museum Carlos Slim.[4] The museum received an attendance of 1,095,000 in 2013, making it the most visited art museum in Mexico and the 56th in the world that year.[1] In October 2015, the museum welcomed its five millionth visitor.[5] The museum was designed by Slim's son-in-law, Fernando Romero's practice, fr·ee.
- ^ a b Top 100 Art Museum Attendance, The Art Newspaper, 2014. Retrieved on 9 July 2014.
- ^ Excélsior (1 April 2011). "Museo Soumaya gratis y entre los mejores (Museo Soumaya free and among the best)" (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ Miselem, Sofía (1 April 2011). "Magnate mexicano-libanés Slim reúne en México obras de arte de renombre mundial" (in Spanish). AFP.
- ^ "Carlos Slim: At home with the world's richest man". The Telegraph. 21 February 2011.
- ^ "Museo Soumaya llega a 5 millones de visitantes" (in Spanish). Fundación Carlos Slim. 27 October 2015.