page_title: Casa Lamm
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Casa Lamm / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Español: Casa Lamm, ubicada en Alvaro Obregón #99, colonia Roma. Obra de Lewis Lamm, construida en 1911. Imagen donada como parte de la colaboración GLAM Wikimedia México/Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa.English: Casa Lamm, localized in Alvaro Obregon 99, colonia Roma. Lewis Lamm, builded in 1911. Image donated as a GLAM collaboration between Wikimedia México/Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa
context_page_description: The Casa Lamm Cultural Center is the best known landmark in Colonia Roma. It was a house built in the early 20th century when Colonia Roma was a new neighborhood for the wealthy leaving the historic center of Mexico City. In the 1990s, the house was restored to open as a cultural center in 1994, with the aim of making the area a center for the visual arts. Today, it hosts numerous exhibits as well as offering classes, even degrees, in art and literature.
context_section_description: The institute consists of art exhibition space and management, some graduate level programs in the fine arts and a restaurant and bookstore, which are open to the public. Since it opened, it has hosted numerous art exhibitions.   The art exhibitions are held in the various galleries that are in the building.  There is a committee which chooses the artists to exhibit which includes known names as well as new talents. In 2010, the Center held over fifteen exhibitions related to painting, photography and other disciplines, including those by Jacinto de Marín, and Francisco Toledo .
  In 1999, it received custody of Televisa’s large art collection, which was formerly housed in the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo in Polanco.  The main challenge in accepting the collection was to build adequate facilities for its preservation. One of the downstairs galleries was converted for the purpose. The space contains four areas: the vault (which is fifty cm off the floor to control humidity), a research and consultation room for experts, one for the general public and a space for exhibitions of pieces selected on a rotating basis. The walls of the vault are isolated from those of the room which contains controls for temperature and humidity. The collection contains 2,294 images that Manuel Álvarez Bravo collected over twenty years. It contains works by pioneers such as Charles Gerard, William Henry Fox Talbot, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kati Horna, Karl Blossfeldt, Man Ray, Guillermo Kahlo, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Graciela Iturbide, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Rafael Doniz as well as by Alvarez Bravo himself. The entire collection has also been digitalized. 
  On the ground floor of the building, facing the street are the bookstore and restaurant. The Liberia Pegaso bookstore contains large selections in English and Spanish, especially in art-related books, but there are also books on literature, history and poetry. The Las Flores del Mal restaurant was last remodeled in 2003, and is considered to be a very fashionable place to eat. Most of the dining area is centered on an open-air patio accented by a black fountain. Many of the restaurant’s patrons are those dedicated to the arts and media. It can also be rented for special events. It has a wide variety wines from various countries but the menu is not extensive containing international cuisine with Mexican touches such as huitlacoche, epazote and tamarind.
  The center offers bachelor’s in art history, as well as masters in art, art appreciation and literary creation and a doctorate in art history. The bachelor’s is offered in conjunction with Secretariat of Public Education .  It also offers courses, certificate programs, seminars and workshops in various disciplines such as art history, Mexican history, archeology, painting, sculpture, philosophy, music and cinema. It also contains an art library with almost 12,000 volumes, just over 680 videos.
caption: Courtyard inside Casa Lamm
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