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.
Exterior of the Plaza Carso building, 2014
Bust of Maximiliano I of Mexico and Carlota of Mexico.
The Julián and Linda Slim gallery, Plaza Carso building, where much of the Rodin and Dalí collection is displayed. The Three Shades can be seen in the middle of the gallery.
Soumaya Museum Entrance Plaza Loreto.
Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million and 1.4 billion. The complex claims to be the largest mixed-use development in Latin America. It was built on the site of a former Vitro glass factory.
Part of the Plaza Carso development, with the Museo Soumaya in the foreground
