Museo Soumaya

This guide to Museo Soumaya in Mexico City opens with the sixteen thousand hexagonal aluminum tiles rippling across its facade, and the man who paid for the roughly seventy-million-dollar building, telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim, who named it for his late wife. It follows the free admission policy his foundation's endowment absorbs, and a buying spree Slim made in the 1980s, quietly acquiring Rodin bronzes cast after cast before museum-wing prices caught up. That spree became the largest gathering of Rodin sculpture found outside France.