Museo Del Estanquillo

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Lonely Planet review

The 'corner shop' museum contains the vast pop-culture collection amassed over the decades by DF essayist, commentator and pack rat Carlos Monsivais. Housed in a magnificent neoclassical building which was an important jewelry store in the early 20th century, the museum illustrates various phases in the capital's development through numerous photos, paintings, daguerreotypes, board games, movie posters, illustrated sheets of verse, comic strips and so on from the collection. Taken together, these objects culled from the city's flea markets, rare book stores and antique shops add up to a vivid people's history of Mexico City.