Art museums in the city of Mexico

The Museum of modern artin Mexico Cd (open Tuesdays to Sundays; paid entry), located in two buildings surrounded by glass cachada, exhibits a permanent collection of paintings by one of the most famous Mexican artists of the 20th centurysuch as Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo and the "big three": Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera. One of the rooms is dedicated to the great Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Braco and also worth seeing the series of landscapes of the painter of the century XIX José Maria Velasco. Usually, there is at least one traveling interest exposure, so you don't forget to report thereon.
Refining Tamayo Museum(open from Tuesday to Sunday; paid entry), to the East of the Museum of anthropology, houses a remarkable collection of contemporary art donated by Rufino Tamayo, exhibited in an ingenious building designed by architects Zabludosky y González de León. The Museum possesses some eloquent work of the own Tamayo, among them a magnificent portrait of his wife, Olga.
The walk of the reform, the most elegant and solemn artery of the capital continues eastward towards some affluent residential areas. One of them, Polanco, has some excellent shops, a few restaurants and several expensive hotels.

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