Mexico City
Palacio de Bellas Artes
The best shows in a white marble palace
Avenida Juárez y Eje Lázaro Cárdenas
Mexico City, 06040
Nearest Train: Bellas Artes-Hidalgo
Phone: +52 51 30 0900 x2528
Fax: +52 51 0 1388
Website | EmailIn 1904, the construction of the Palacio de Bellas Artes began on the remains of the Santa Isabel convent. Porfirio Diaz had wanted to inaugurate it in 1911, to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain. However, the project, under the guidance of Italian architect Adamo Boari, suffered serious setbacks due to the instability of the ground that had been chosen for the building. Time passed, the revolution broke out, and in the end the palace was not completed until 1934, with architect Federico Mariscal heading the project. It is not strange, therefore, that the marble façade, built in a style between Neo-classical and Art Nouveau, is contrasted by an interior that looks much more Art Deco in appearance. Art connoisseurs will certainly appreciate the museum's murals by Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco, Tamayo and Montenegro, along with the glass Tiffany curtain, composed of almost a million individual pieces, on which Doctor Atl (a modern Mexican landscape painter) depicted the volcanoes of Mexico.
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