The Soumaya Museum also has a collection of Former European teachers which includes works by artists from the French, German, Flamenco, Italian and Spanish school as Sandro Botticelli, Tintoretto, Murillo, El Greco or Rubens.
National Art at the Soumaya Museum
Regarding national art, Soumaya exposes a collection of Pre -Hispanic piecesranging from masks, mud and incense figurines, to skulls with epigraphs and other utensils that were part of the majority of cultures that expanded through the national territory during periods Preclassic, classic and Postclassic.
The collection also keeps valuable pieces of Novohispanos teachers and artists who marked cultural syncretism between the two worlds, such as Cristóbal de Villalpando and Juan Correa. In addition, it includes works by Pioneers of landscaping in Mexicolike Daniel Thomas Egerton and Jean-Baptiste Louis.
The most important artists of the Soumaya Museum
The most famous and visited works from the permanent collection of the Soumaya Museum include great national artists of the twentieth century such as Rufino TamayoJuan SorianoJosé Luis Caves or Francisco Toledoin addition to some works by Claude MONET Pierre-Auguste RenoirEdgar Degas, Vincent van GoghPablo PicassoSalvador DalíJoan Looked and Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec.
Location
The Soumaya Museum is located in the Plaza Carso, a complex located in the area known as the new Polanco, in the Granada colonies and Granada expansionto the west of Mexico City. It is 20 minutes from the Historic Center of the capital and 35 minutes from the International Airport of Mexico City.
How to get to the Soumaya Museum
By public transport, the closest stations are San Joaquín and Polancoboth of the Line 7 of the Metro Collective Tranport System from Mexico City. By car, from the center of the city the Avenida Reforma south and San Joaquín River are the main access roads to Carso Square.
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