Papalote Museo del Niño

This guide to Papalote Museo del Niño traces the blue ceramic-tiled castle back to its opening day in Chapultepec park in November nineteen ninety-three, and to the first lady, Cecilia Occelli, whose visit to a Tokyo museum inspired it. You'll hear how architect Ricardo Legorreta built it with his son Víctor on the site of an old glass factory, and the unusual financial rule the museum has followed since day one: no government subsidy, ever. The guide follows that gamble into a real crisis for the institution decades later.