Culture & galleries
22 places
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Culture & galleries
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Casa Lamm
Porfirian mansion housing art galleries, a bookstore and cultural workshops.
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Cineteca Nacional
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Mexico City's temple of cinema: 10 screens, an open-air forum, gardens and a bookshop; art-house films at friendly prices.
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Complejo Cultural Los Pinos
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The former presidential residence, open to the public since 2018: houses, gardens and the Avenue of Presidents.
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Cárcamo de Dolores (Museo Jardín del Agua)
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A 1951 waterworks with Diego Rivera's submerged mural and his huge outdoor Tláloc fountain.
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Galería L.
A contemporary art gallery in Hipódromo.
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Galería OMR
Leading contemporary art gallery, a fixture of the Mexican scene since the 1980s.
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Huerto Roma Verde
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A biosocial lab and community garden on a lot left vacant since the 1985 earthquake.
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MUMEDI · Museo Mexicano del Diseño
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Museum and shop dedicated to Mexican graphic and industrial design.
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MUNET Museo Nacional de Energía y Tecnología
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An interactive energy and technology museum in Chapultepec's second section, with themed halls and a humanoid robot.
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Monumento a la Revolución
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Art Deco monument with a panoramic viewing deck and a Revolution museum in the basement.
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Museo Franz Mayer
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Decorative arts museum inside a former 16th-century hospital, facing Alameda Central.
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Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul)
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The Blue House where Frida was born and lived: her studio, clothes and belongings much as she left them in the 1950s.
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Museo Jumex
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Top-tier contemporary art from the Jumex Collection. Free entry and free guided tours.
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Museo Memoria y Tolerancia
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Museum on 20th-century genocides and human rights, facing the Hemiciclo a Juárez.
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Museo Nacional de Antropología
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Mexico's great museum, open since 1964 on Reforma: archaeology and ethnography from the whole country in one visit.
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Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec
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The hilltop castle where Maximilian and Carlota lived, now the National History Museum, with the best view down Reforma.
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Museo Nacional de San Carlos
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European art museum (14th–20th century) inside the neoclassical Palacio del Conde de Buenavista.
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Museo Soumaya Plaza Carso
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Fernando Romero's silver building of 16,000 hexagons: six floors of art from the Carlos Slim collection. Free entry.
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Museo Tamayo
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An international contemporary art museum founded in 1981 inside Chapultepec Park, right on Reforma.
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Palacio de Bellas Artes
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Mexico's most iconic Art Nouveau/Art Deco theater and museum, with murals by Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros.