Collections & Galleries
Museums
TODO — what museums in Mexico City are actually worth the time.
5 placesChapultepec
Museo Nacional de Antropología
One of the great museums of the world, holding the Aztec Sun Stone and the whole of Mesoamerica, under a concrete umbrella.
Coyoacán
Museo Frida Kahlo
The blue house in Coyoacán where she was born, lived with Rivera, and died, kept as it was left.
Centro Histórico
Museo del Templo Mayor
The Aztec great temple, found by electricity workers in 1978 under the corner of the Zócalo, excavated and left open.
Polanco
Museo Soumaya and Museo Jumex
A silver-scaled asymmetric tower built by the richest man in Latin America, free to enter, next door to a serious contemporary gallery.
Centro Histórico
Museo de Arte Popular
Mexican folk art in an Art Deco fire station — alebrijes, Tree of Life candelabra, textiles and skeletons.