12 Dec 5 Museums in Mexico City You Need To Visit

If you follow me on Instagram, you must have noticed that I’ve been going to Mexico quite a lot lately. That is because I am working closely with Interjet Airlines to discover Mexico and create content around that beautiful country that is just 5 hours away from Montreal.

About Interjet Airlines

Interjet Airlines is a lowcost airline company that offers flight from Canada (Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver) to Mexico. They are all over Latin America and they have lot of room space in their plane and offer free alcohol! In addition, they also just celebrated their 14th year, so, Happy Birthday Interjet! To book a flight with them, head over here : https://www.interjet.com/

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During my trips in Mexico, I spent time discovering about the gastronomy, the culture and more. In this blog post, I want to share with you 5 Musuems that YOU MUST VISIT next time you are in Mexico City.

Read about the 3 things I did during my trip to Mexico in September here.

Museo Soumaya, Free

Located at Plaza Carso in Polanco, Museo Soumaya looks already impressive from the outside. Designed by Fernando Romero and owned by Carlos Slim, this museum is a free museum that has multiple expositions. Fun Fact: In 2013, Museo Soumaya was the most visited museum in Mexico.

I went there with my friend Sigal and we were quite impressed by the art collection that this museum has. One of the reason why this is a museum that you must visit in Mexico is that it has a large private collection of over 66,000 pieces of art which range from Mesoamerica to modern-day. As soon as you walk in, you are welcomed by two beautiful pieces from the French artist Auguste Rodin: The Thinker and The Gates of Hell. Another fun fact: Museo Soumaya actually holds the largest collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside France and the world’s largest private collection of his art. Each floor has a different exposition with pieces from Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and more. 

To know more about the exposition, head over their website HERE.

Here are some pictures of my visit there:

Picture of me in front of the Soumaya Museum

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

Museo Soumaya during Golden Hour

My friend Sigal looking at art pieces

Fr Miguel de Herrera. Alegorías del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y la Santísima Trinidad (1747)

The Blue House: Frida Kahlo Museum, About 27$ CAD on Trip Advisor

Located in Coyoàcan, the Frida Kahlo Museum is a museum you must visit in Mexico. This place is very busy and popular so I suggest that you reserve your visit in advance. We didn’t do it, so we actually weren’t able to visit this museum. In case you don’t know who Frida Kahlo is, she is one of the most popular Latin American Artist. She’s a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. ( Britannica Biography, to read more about her, click here)

This museum showcases an exposition of her work in her home which makes you feel the total Frida Kahlo experience. In addition, this museum preserved the personal objects of Latin America’s most celebrated woman artist and has some of her most popular works such as Long Live Life (1954), Frida and the Caesarian Operation (1931), and Portrait of My Father Wilhelm Kahlo (1952).

To know more about this museum, head over their website here.

Memory and Tolerance Museum, starts at 7$ CAD

When it comes to history, one of the most important historical moments that affected the World is the Holocaust. While I thought I had learned enough about it during my visit to multiple museums in Munich, Germany, I was surprised to learn more facts about this tragedy during my visit to the Memory and Tolerance Museum. In fact, a visit to this museum will definitely make you feel the pain and tragedy that happened through times. Not only that this museum showcases what happened during the holocaust, but it also displays a tour of the worst crimes committed by humanity against humanity because of religious, ethnic or other forms of intolerance. I really enjoyed this museum because it opened my eyes on World events that I had no clue about such as the genocide of indigenous people in Guatemala

During my visit there with my friends, we were so submerged by the exposition that our visit lasted 3 hours. 

To know more about his museum, head over their website here.

Me looking at pictures of victims of the Cambodian genocides that killed over 1.7 Million People

List of the universal rights displayed at the Memory and Tolerance Museum

National Museum of Anthropology, starts at 30$ CAD

The number one museum on Trip Advisor to visit in Mexico City is the National Museum of Anthropology. It is the largest and the most visited museum in Mexico City. (And guess what? I didn’t even visit it, so please visit it for me and I will make sure to visit it next time I am in Mexico City!)

Located in the Chapultepec area, this famous institution houses four square kilometers of exhibits in 23 exhibition halls. As a student of sociology, I am always interested to know more about the history of a country. This museum showcases the very beginning of Mexico and has amazing pieces that were discovered. From the Stone of the Sun, giant stone heads of the Olmec civilization that were found in the jungles of Tabasco and Veracruz, treasures recovered from the Maya civilization and more.

To know more about this museum, head over here. 

Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, starts at 5$ CAD

Located in Coyoàcan, this complex offers a full experience with a cinema theater, an exposition and more. This place is dedicated to the preservation, cataloging, exhibition, and diffusion of cinema in Mexico.

I went there for the opening of the current exposition on Luis Buñuel that will be on until April 19th 2020. Luis is a Spanish born Mexican filmmaker that worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. (Mexican because he actually came to Mexico as a refugee in 1946 because of the Fraco regime) During the exposition, you discover original pieces carried out by specialists from the National Cineteca divided into 10 modules. I was quite impressed by his work since it was in more than one language. If you are curious about his work, you can watch his movie ”Un Chien Andalou” here (P.S. You didn’t get that link from me LOL)

That being said, if you want to know more about the Cineteca National, head over here.

Cineteca Nacional | © Fanni Blake/Flickr

Now I am curious to know more about your museums to visit in Mexico! I planned to go there more and more and showcase their culture to all of you. And before I forget, here is the last fun fact: most museums are free in Mexico on Sundays!