Museum sights in West Of Mexico City
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Museo de Arte Moderno
The Museo de Arte Moderno is the least exciting of the three museums. It traces the development of Mexican art from the late-19th-century Academia de San Carlos to the Nueva Plástica and includes paintings by Tamayo, Orozco and many others, but frankly there's little to be excited about beyond the impressive spherical mural of people fighting against slavery, which makes up part of the building itself.
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Museo de Antropología e História
The Museo de Antropología e História is the stand-out museum, and presents exhibits on the state's history from prehistoric times to the 20th century, with a good collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts. It also traces pre-Hispanic cultural influences to the modern day in tools, clothing, textiles and religion. Sadly, nearly all the labels are only in Spanish.
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Museo de Culturas Populares
The Museo de Culturas Populares has a wonderfully varied collection of México's traditional arts and crafts, with some astounding 'trees of life' from Metepec, whimsical Day of the Dead figures and a fine display of charro gear. There are also mosaics, traditional rugs, a loft and a gift shop.
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Museo de Bellas Artes
The ex-convent buildings adjacent to the Templo del Carmen, on the north side of Plaza Garibay, house Toluca’s Museo de Bellas Artes, which exhibits paintings from the colonial period to the early 20th century.
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Museo Universitario Dr Luis Mario Schneider
The Museo Universitario Dr Luis Mario Schneider explores the region’s history and archaeology in a beautiful modern museum space.
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José María Velasco
On Bravo, opposite the Palacio de Gobierno, is a museum dedicated to landscape painter José María Velasco.
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Luis Nishizawa
This musuem exhibits the work of multifaceted Mexican-Japanese artist Luis Nishizawa.
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Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez
This is a museum, on Bravo, dedicated to painter Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez.
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