City: Centro Histórico
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What to do and see in Centro Histórico, Mexico: The Best Specialty Museums
Rising from the ruins of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City offers a unique collision of contemporary city life and historic preservation. World-class museums, restaurants and parks rub shoulders with the remains of several cultures. The nightlife, the shopping and the history make it a must-see regardless of your travel style.
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1. Museo Hidraulico
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Located in a water recycling plant, this museum educates visitors on the methods by which technology sustains the world's water supply.
2. Jose Clemente Orozco's Mural Series in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By Calistogababe - Oaxaca, Mexico
I came here with a guide to see Rivera's first wall mural, The Creation, and fell in love with Orozco! this is a great place to visit if you're interested in the great muralists of the 1920's I found I needed a guide to help me with the history of the Mexican Revolution. I then came back to my hotel and read up some more at night. This is so rich in social art...and to me this is also very relevant art for our current times.There is a lot of focus on the disparity between the extremely wealthy few and the rest of us.
3. El Museo Palacio de Valparaiso
4. Museo de la Mujer
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
5. Museo Nacional de Artes
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4.5 based on 842 reviews
This museum has a huge collection of artwork ranging from ancient times to the present. The most important collection of Mexican art.
Reviewed By Thebinkers - Raleigh, United States
We really enjoyed this museum. It’s a beautiful building with an interesting collection of Mexican art from the 20th and 21st centuries. There were few visitors.
6. Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide
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4.5 based on 160 reviews
Built in the 18th century, this large home provides visitors a look a traditional baroque architecture.
Reviewed By Cabra - London, United Kingdom
Built for colonial nobility, it now houses a wide variety of exquisite works of art and it’s free. There are lots of different crafts, pottery, leather, fabric, sculpture and there should be something here for everyone.
7. Museo de Arte SHCP Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
This preserved 16th-century home has been transformed into a museum that traces the development of Mexican art from pre-Columbian times to modern day.
8. MIDE, Interactive Museum of Economics
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4.5 based on 145 reviews
The MIDE, Interactive Museum of Economics, emerged as an initiative of the Bank of Mexico to be a space for spreading the economy and finance. It is the first museum in the world dedicated to explaining topics of economics, finance and sustainable development with the most advanced technologies, offering its visitors fun and relevant experiences, in an environment that stimulates emotions and learning. Welcome to a 21st Century Museum in a beautiful 18th century building. Come to MIDE. Your time is worth it. Visit: https://www.mide.org.mx
9. Museo Del Estanquillo
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4.5 based on 84 reviews
Reviewed By SkykomishBob - Olympia, United States
My wife and I often discuss how brilliant the Smithsonian concept of free museums is and were delighted today to see the Mexicans understand the idea, at least here. It was later in the day, we didn't have a plan and happened into Estanquillo. Being tired and not knowing what was there or what to expect, we wouldn't have ponied up too much to get in. Being free was perfect. On the first floor, the ground floor being zero the first floor seemed at least 40 steps up -- had we known we'd have taken the elevator, was a collection of illustrations/illustrators beginning with when printing came to Mexico. We didn't really know we were interested in this subject, but the presentations were so specific and understandable we were fascinated beginning to end. The layout is sequential and understandable. There is enough information IN ENGLISH that we could appreciate everything we saw. The brilliance of the drawings themselves seemed almost breathtaking (we're art people), while the significance of their place in the history of Mexico added a link that elevated everything we saw. Out of ignorance we did the circuit backward (we went left instead of right) chronologically, but for us it was perhaps a better route because we were so blown away by the skill of the later portrait artists in capturing nuances in faces with a dozen pen strokes for an eyebrow or eye shading, that we were fully ready to appreciate the value of the earlier illustrations in books and pamphlets. On the 4th floor is a museum of miniatures that may be more interesting to many visitors than it was to us after the illustrators, but what the heck, it's all free so drop in and decide what grabs you... If you decide to leave after ten minute you haven't lost much, huh?
10. Sinagoga Historica Justo Sierrra
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4.5 based on 33 reviews
Reviewed By 759elib - Sydney, Australia
Its like been dropped into a synagogue in Lithuania . The temple on the second level of the interior building, has double-height ceilings and a wraparound upper level that looks down on the congregation. Gold details, meticulously painted ceiling in rich hues of blue, green, and yellow, with ornate wood menorahs that are a centrepiece of this exquisite place of worship and architectural style
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