page_title: Museo Soumaya
section_title: Rooms
hierarchical_section_title: Museo Soumaya / Building / Plaza Carso / Rooms
caption_attribution_description: Español: Obras de arte de la colección privada de Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, historiador y cronista autodidacta mexicano (1956-2013), en la Casa Museo Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, donde él vivió (Valladolid 52, colonia Roma, alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX). English: Art works of the private collection of Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, self-educated Mexican historian and chronicler (1956-2013), at Casa Museo Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, where he lived (Valladolid 52, neighborhood Roma, borough Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City).
context_page_description: The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City - Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto. It has over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, 19th- and 20th-century Mexican art and an extensive repertoire of works by European old masters and masters of modern western art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto. It is called one of the most complete collections of its kind.
  The museum is named after Soumaya Domit, who died in 1999, and was the wife of the founder of the museum Carlos Slim. The museum received an attendance of 1,095,000 in 2013, making it the most visited art museum in Mexico and the 56th in the world that year. In October 2015, the museum welcomed its five millionth visitor. The museum was designed by Fernando Romero's practice, fr·ee.
context_section_description: Entrance: This foyer area is an asymmetric, high-ceiling vestibule. This space is devoted to temporary exhibitions, events, and the permanent exhibits of large-format works: The Thinker by Auguste Rodin, Río Juchitán, the last mural by Diego Rivera, Still life by Rufino Tamayo, Day and night by Rufino Tamayo, and Pieta, cast in bronze in the 19th century by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry from the original marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
  Level 1: Gold and silver: decorative arts. Collection of coins, medals, and banknotes dating from the Viceroyalty to the post-revolutionary era. There are also objects in ivory, silk, and precious stones for religious and civil use.
  Level 2: Temporary exhibitions
  Level 3: European and Novohispanic Old Masters. Works of European artists such as the Cranachs, Tintoretto, el Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Murillo, with Colonial works by, among others, Villalpando, Juárez, Cabrera, and Páez.
  Level 4: From Impressionism to the Avant-garde. Landscape and costumbrist works of 19th-century Mexico by Chapman, Rugendas, Egerton, Linati, Baron Gros, Löhr, Landesio and Velasco together with works from the European movements and vanguards, by Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Vlaminck, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miró.
  Level 5: (temporary) : Venice Museo Soumaya Collection.
  Level 6: Julián and Linda Slim / The Rodin Era. Works by Rodin and his pupils and associates, such as Camille Claudel and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle. The surrealist sculptures by Salvador Dalí are exhibited on this level.
caption: Miguel Cabrera, Archangel Raphael (c. 1745-1768), the lobby of the House Museum Guillermo Tovar de Teresa.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "2336", "Image ImageLength": "4160", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Make": "HUAWEI", "Image Model": "ALE-L23", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "ALE-L23C212B203", "Image DateTime": "2019:02:12 16:56:09", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "268", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[19, 25, 38751/3125]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[99, 10, 141573/25000]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "22363/10", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[22, 56, 8]", "GPS GPSProcessingMethod": "[78, 69, 84, 87, 79, 82, 75, 0]", "GPS GPSDate": "2019:02:12", "Image GPSInfo": "972", "Image DeviceSettingDescription": "[105, 112, 112, 0]", "Thumbnail ImageWidth": "288", "Thumbnail ImageLength": "512", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1316", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "27029", "EXIF DocumentName": "[]", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/30", "EXIF FNumber": "2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "1190", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2019:02:12 16:56:09", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:02:12 16:56:09", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "12267/2500", "EXIF ApertureValue": "2", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "0", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Average", "EXIF LightSource": "Daylight", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "379/100", "EXIF SubSecTime": "155456", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "155456", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "155456", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2336", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "4160", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "942", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Custom", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "27", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0"}