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 Palace of the Count of 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.

Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Oval patio of the museum
Map
LocationColonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Public transit accessMuseo San Carlos bus station
Websitewww.mnsancarlos.com

The institution

Entrance

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[1]
  • ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma[2]
  • 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán[3]

The collection

Paintings

Sculptures

Other

  • Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century

See also

References

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