Mexico City III
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| soumaya museum |
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| Mexican Art |
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| Mexican Art(?) |
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| castillo de chapultepec |
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| squirrel |
museum modern art
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| Kazuya Sakai |
Well here in Mexico City there is proof that money cannot buy you everything. We started out to visit the Soumaya Museum of Carlos Slim and while the building from the outside looks interesting a closer look shows that it is pieces and bits a things that already existed before. It is BMW Welt combined with Guggenheim New York. The son in law of Carlos is the architect so maybe that explains a bit. The building is not working inside - the collection not properly displayed and lighted. The coin collection is really not visible which is a shame because that seems to be the most interesting part of the museum collections. Yes there is Rodin, Dali, Bourdelle, Frans Hals - well there is a bit of everything - but that doesn't make it a interesting museum.
Much better is the original museum of modern art in the
chapultepec park from 1964. This building by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez is still very modern (or is it modern again?). It has some really interesting pieces and exhibitions.
We ended our stay in Mexico City (which we really liked) with a visted to the chapultepec Castel where the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I lived during the second Mexican Empire. It is build on a (sacred) Maya hill so you have a pretty view of the rest of the city - well a tiny part of it because this is a gigantic city.
