Museo Nacional de Arte - National Art Museum.
Number 8 Tacuba St., Historical Centre, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México DF
(52 55) 5130-3400
Web site: www.munal.com.mx
Description: this Museum offers a vision of Mexican's art development and evolution since the 16th century to the middle 20th century. Inside its showrooms are exhibited paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographs from a number of authors and epochs. This valuable collection contains an amount of art objects surpassing 10.000 pieces.
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday between 10:30 am and 5:30 pm.
Museo Nacional de las Culturas - National Museum of the Cultures.
13 Moneda Street, Colonia Centro Histórico, At the northern side of the Palacio Nacional (National Palace)
(52 55) 5542-0165, 5521-1438
Web site: www.inah.gob.mx/muse1/html/muse131.html
Description: its striking premises nurture from the valuable artistic objects from the main civilisations of the world, as the classical Greek-Roman, the Hebrew, the Arab and the Asian, just to mention a few. It comprises more than 20 halls and its seat is a colonial mansion of great architectonical significance.
Schedule: open from Tuesdays to Sundays.
Museo de Artes Plásticas - Museum of Plastic Arts
Number 1 Hidalgo Avenue, México DF
(52-55) 5512-2593 y 5521-9251 (extensions: 132-217)
Web site: www.cnca.gob.mx/museos.htm
Description: contains splendid samples of Mexican art, stretching from remote Pre-Hispanic art expressions to paintings by the famous muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and displaying in between an assortment of religious objects from colonial times.
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm.
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Number 7 Colón St., in the corner with Balderas St., Colonia Centro Histórico, México DF
(52-55) 5510-2329
Web site: www.arts-history.mx/museomural.html
Description: this is a cultural space revering the life and works of the famed muralist Diego Rivera. One of its rooms shelters one of his greatest paintings: "Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda" or "Sunday's afternoon reverie at the Boulevard". The Museum also contains a showroom for temporary exhibitions, where Mexican or foreign artists residing show their works.
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm.
Museo Nacional de las Culturas Populares - National Museum of Popular Arts.
289 Hidalgo Avenue, Coyoacán, México DF
(52-55) 5554-8968
Description: its facilities does not contain any permanent exhibit. It only hosts temporary displays from the colourful and millenary Mexican creativity along with other popular cultural expressions.
Schedule: Tuesday to Thursday between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm and Friday to Sunday between 10:00 am and 8:00 pm.
Museo Frida Khalo
247 Londres Street at the corner with Allende St., Coyoacán, México DF
(52-55) 5554-5999
Description: within Frida Khalo's birthplace an interesting museum has been compiled, thus allowing the visitor to come close to her private world, her love affairs and her art. The showrooms house part of her art works along with personal belongings of a lifetime.
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday between 10:00 am and 5:45 pm.
