Carlos Slim Art Museum

This is the Soumaya Art Museum in Mexico City.  It houses the private collection of Carlos Slim who is the richest man in Mexico and is also considered the richest man in the world.   He wants the people of Mexico to be able to have access to art so the museum is free.


The architecture is amazing inside and out as well as the unexpected collection of art from men and women throughout the world and centuries.

Dennis outside the tiled Soumaya museum of Carlos Slim

Me at the Museum

The beautiful marble bathroom with Sister Jackie Beecher 

There were several of Rodin's statues of The Thinker.  Evidently he made more than one copy of his work.  This is small one. 

Top floor of the museum a collection of original works by many famous artists.

I like this postcard of the Cedars of Lebanon done by the artist who wrote the book The Prophet, Gibran Kahill Gribran.

This was in the Asia collection done out of ivory.  It is a doctor checking an ear.  Dennis cleaned wax out of a missionaries ear for 45 minuets one day.  

This is a Vincent Van Gogh .  A shepard with his sheep in a storm.

I loved the Asian screens

These ivory tusks were huge

A chocolate reproduction of the museum you could buy in the museum shop.  

The Lion King was playing next door.  The Telcel building (cell phone system in Mexico) is probably also owned by Slim as that is part of his wealth.  

We went to a very nice mall after seeing the museum.  I had never been to a Saks Fifth Avenue store and actually we didn't go in this time either.   What a contrast to the neighborhoods we generally see. We ate at a P.F.Chang's that was in the mall for lunch/dinner.