Museo Soumaya

The Museo Soumaya is a company founded in 1994 in a new building in 2011 - a six-story metal - newly opened art museum in Mexico City. The billionaire Carlos Slim had it built in his hometown of Mexico City to there to exhibit his extensive art collection with more than 66,000 exhibits. This has an estimated value of around 700 million dollars. The museum itself has cost about 34 million dollars. The name of the museum is due to the 1999 Slims late wife, Soumaya Domit.

Scope of exhibitions

In the museum are in a permanent exhibition showing the works of European artists, including the Impressionists, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Paul Signac, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh, as well as works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí presented. Moreover, it is known for its exhibition of 380 Rodin's sculptures - one of the world's most extensive collections of sculptures in this French sculptor.