Museo Soumaya
Six-story museum wrapped in sixteen thousand rippling hexagonal aluminum tiles, free to enter.
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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.
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