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Museo Nacional de San Carlos

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Website
  
www.mnsancarlos.com/

Phone
  
+52 55 8647 5800

Museo Nacional de San Carlos

Location
  
Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City

Address
  
Puente de Alvarado 50, Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, 06030 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

Hours
  
Closed now Tuesday10AM–6PMWednesday10AM–6PMThursday10AM–6PMFriday10AM–6PMSaturday10AM–6PMSunday10AM–6PMMondayClosedSuggest an edit

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Museo nacional de san carlos


The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palacio del Conde de Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.

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Visita al museo nacional de san carlos


The institution

The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.

Directors

  • 1997 - 2004: Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo
  • ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma
  • 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán
  • Sculptures

  • James Pradier, Bacchante
  • Auguste Rodin, The call to arms
  • Miguel E. Schulz, Diana
  • Manuel Vilar, Charles Borromeo
  • Other

  • Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century
  • References

    Museo Nacional de San Carlos Wikipedia