Mexico City is one of the cities with the most museums in the world. Don’t wait until International Museum Day, which is celebrated annually on 18th May, to...
Art & Culture
Your guide to best art galleries, museums, shows, musicals and plays in Mexico City
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
The Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum is one of the preferred museums of art lovers, thanks to the fact that it continuously houses vanguard exhibits and for its...
The 10 best museums for kids in Mexico City
Mexico City is bursting at the seams with things that’ll intrigue your little ones: pre-Hispanic wonders, the archeological remains of our ancestors, inspiring...
The best Frida Kahlo art in Mexico City
Mexico City is home to legacy of many great Mexican artists, such as the muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. The painter...
MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo
Art had ceased to be called modern in the last century and the city lacked a space dedicated exclusively to house the latest artistic endeavors, those that the...
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Best museums in Mexico City
Templo Mayor, museo y zona arqueológica
Majestic even in name, the main temple houses Mexico’s most precious history. The vestiges of this ceremonial center tell of the lineage of all Mexicans and of...
Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA)
They say that school actually ruins a lot of things for us, for example those of us who studied Mexican history year after year in elementary school may have a...
Museo Frida Kahlo. Casa Azul
The selling point of this museum – the most visited in all of Mexico City - is that it was the house where Frida Kahlo was born, lived her life and died. When...
Munal. Museo Nacional de Arte
Dominating the plaza in front of the National Museum of Art is the equestrian statue designed by the illustrious architect for which this space is named:...
Best art galleries in Mexico City
Celaya Brothers Gallery
Brothers Víctor and Ricardo Celaya have numerous art, design and publicity projects for both Mexican and foreign institutions, among which the "Seres Queridos"...
Galería OMR
Pioneers in showing Mexican art abroad, Jaime Riestra and Patricia Ortiz Monasterio founded OMR in 1983. A space that has been able to gain an important...
Galería Hilario Galguera
Damien Hirst changed Hilario Galguera's life. After all, it was Damien artist who proposed that Galguera open his own gallery, after he had lost everything,...
Proyectos Monclova
This Polina Stroganova directed gallery, is a platform for emerging domestic and foreign artists. Although it was founded in 2005, it wasn’t until 2012 that...
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Most popular theaters and forums
Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris
Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris
Located in the Centro Histórico, along Calle Donceles, is a majestic building that has born the name Esperanza Iris (1884-1962) Mexico’s “queen of the opera”...
Auditorio Nacional
Auditorio Nacional
If you grew up in Mexico City, surely you have more than one fond memory associated with this place: a concert that blew your mind, a magic show that left you...
Teatro Telcel
Teatro Telcel
It's like Broadway... but in Polanco. That’s what was promised by creators of the newest and most well-equipped theatrical venue in Mexico City, similar to the...
Teatro Metropólitan
Teatro Metropólitan
We’re certain that all Mexico City residents have visited Teatro Metropólitan at least once in our lives. Built in 1943 by architect Pedro Gorozpe Echeverría –...
Teatro de los Insurgentes
Teatro de los Insurgentes
Since its inception in 1950, this venue was aligned against the established: the small and colonial theaters. For this reason, creator José María Dávila, who...
Polyforum Siqueiros
Polyforum Siqueiros
The murals housed in Polyforum Siqueiros tell a great part of the its history, as a cultural, social and political space. You’ll see concerts, theater works,...