National Museum of World Cultures
Baroque former royal mint built over an Aztec ruler's meditation chamber, now holding art from across the globe.
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This guide to the National Museum of World Cultures in Mexico City starts with a windowless room painted black, which the Spanish called the Black House and which belonged to Moctezuma the Second. From there it follows the site through Hernán Cortés, the royal mint raised in the fifteen seventies, and the Baroque facade designed by Luis Diez de Navarro. Best heard out on Calle Moneda, facing the facade.
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