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Art Museum
The Art Museum in the Casa De La Cultura De Nuevo León has temporary displays that are usually good enough to warrant a stop on your way to or from the nearby Museo Del Vidrio.
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Centro Cultural Alfa
The center is 7km south of the city center. Sponsored by the Alfa industrial group, its striking museum building looks like a wonky water tank. Most floors are devoted to science and technology exhibits, but there are also superb Mexican antiquities hidden away on the 5th floor. All are labeled in Spanish only. In the center of the building, what was once the planetarium is now an IMAX cinema.
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Cervecería Cuauhtémoc
Brought to you by the maker of Bohemia, Dos Equis and Tecate beer, this complex in the gardens of the old Cuauhtémoc Brewery now features a baseball hall of fame and brewery tours (with free beer). This is the oldest brewery in Mexico (established in 1890) and there's a very pleasant outdoor garden, which is a nice place to sit even if you don't partake of the free mug of Carta Blanca.
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Horno3
Blast Furnace No 3, which feels like it could start up production again anytime, has been converted into Horno3, a high-tech, hands-on museum of steel and Mexico's steel industry. Don't miss the overly dramatic furnace show. Last tickets are sold one hour before closing.
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La Casa de los Títeres
La Casa de los Títeres has an extensive collection of antique and modern puppets from all corners of the globe, including European marionettes and Vietnamese water puppets. An excellent puppet show (around $50 ) is held on Sunday at .
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Facing the southeast corner of Plaza Zaragoza is the terrific Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, its entrance marked by Juan Soriano's gigantic black dove sculpture. Inside, its idiosyncratic spaces are filled with water and light and major temporary exhibitions. The Sala México, as you probably guessed, has national works, while the other galleries could host just about anything else. Call in advance and you can get a tour in English. Marco also has a fine bookstore and restaurant.
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Museo de Historia Mexicana
This sleek modernist museum presents an exhaustive but easily manageable chronology of Mexican history. There's also an Earth section full of mounted animals and realistic-looking plants at its heart. All explanations are in Spanish only, but English tours can be arranged by phoning in advance.
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Museo de la Fauna y Ciencias Naturales
Museo de la Fauna y Ciencias Naturales with stuffed wildlife in dioramas of natural habitats from Saharan Africa to the Arctic.
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Museo del Noreste
Technically it's a separate institution from the Museo de Historia Mexicana, but practically speaking its galleries on the culture and history of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Texas, packed with video screens and artifacts, function as a new wing of the history museum with one ticket working for both. Begin on the bottom floor to follow the displays chronologically.
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Museo del Palacio de Gobierno
The displays survey the history of government in Nuevo León, but you'll want to visit just for a look at the building.
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Museo del Vidrio
At the back of the Vitro bottle factory (enter from Zaragoza), which has many glass walls so you can watch production, the wonderful Museo de Vidrio focuses on the history, manufacturing and especially the artistic use of glass. The main museum has a bunch of old household objects and a reproduction of a 19th-century stained-glass workshop. The gallery hosts phenomenal temporary exhibitions of glass art in a restored warehouse and has artist workshops attached.
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Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey
The 19th-century Palacio Municipal now houses the Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey. There's a brief, Spanish-only summary of city history on the ground floor and lovely upstairs galleries featuring the work of contemporary painters and sculptors.
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Museo Regional de Nuevo León
The Obispado, a former bishopric palace on a hill 2.5km west of the Zona Rosa, gives fine views of the city and surrounding mountains, smog permitting. Initiated in 1787 on the orders of the bishop of Linares, the building has an intricate yellow Churrigueresque facade. Now it houses the small Museo Regional de Nuevo León that most people will find less intriguing than the views.
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Parque Fundidora
Formally a vast steel-factory complex, this once-blighted industrial zone has been transformed into the huge Parque Fundidora that encompasses a variety of attractions, including many that will appeal to children. Cleverly, the park designers retained rusting smoke stacks and other industrial relics, giving a postmodern, apocalyptic feel to parts of the place.
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Parque Niños Héroes
Parque Niños Héroes, about 5km north of the center, has several family-friendly attractions. Tops is the Museo de la Fauna y Ciencias Naturales with stuffed wildlife in dioramas of natural habitats from Saharan Africa to the Arctic. The park also holds a small aviary, a smaller aquarium and two buildings full of old cars comprising the Museo de Autos.
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Pinacoteca de Nuevo León
This art museum, in the gorgeous Colegio Civil building, has gathered paintings and sculptures from most of the state's leading contemporary artists including Julio Galán (1958-2006), once part of Andy Warhol's circle, while the temporary exhibitions come from the rest of Mexico and beyond.
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Salón de la Fama
On the grounds of the Cuauhtémoc Brewery is the Salón de la Fama, both a baseball hall of fame for players in the Mexican leagues and a museum about the game itself. You can test your throwing arm and batting skills.
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Train Museum
The biggest display in the Casa De La Cultura De Nuevo León is the Train Museum, however it's only so-so.
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