CDMX: No plans for the weekend? Do not miss these exhibitions
In Mexico City (CDMX) it is impossible to get bored, especially on weekends. But if what you are looking for is to learn something new, you cannot miss these 5 exhibitions, we tell you what they are, where they will be and the times.
Photo: Franz Mayer Museum
Exhibitions that you cannot miss in CDMX
In the Mexican Museum of Design, there will be the exhibition of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who showed Snoopy for the first time in a comic strip on October 4, 1950. So if you're a fan of Charlie Brown and the rest of his Peanuts friends, don't miss this Mumedi expo.
Hours: 10:00 am and 8:00 pm, Monday through Friday, and 9:00 am and 9:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Cost: 60 pesos (The visit is on a guided tour).
Available until July 2022.
Where: Avenida Francisco I. Madero 74, Historic Center of CDMX.
In the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, this expo has more than 500 pieces created by members of 45 indigenous peoples of our country. The objective of this exhibition is to show expressions of different ways of understanding the world. But, the museum wants to emphasize overcoming discriminatory and "exotic" prejudices around the art of indigenous peoples.
Hours: From 11:00 am and 4:45 pm, from Tuesday to Sunday.
Cost: 80 pesos.
Available from January 27th.
Where: Palace of Fine Arts: Av. Juárez S/N, Historic Center of CDMX.
Photo: Palace of Fine Arts Museum
The Soumaya Museum, in collaboration with the Government of CDMX and the Fundación del Centro Histórico, held an expo made up of 15 sculptural pieces by Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dalí.
The exhibition is outdoors, there are works such as "Colossal Head", "The Eternal Spring" and "Illusions Received by the Earth", by Rodin; as well as "Woman with a Head of Roses", "Profile of Time" and "Anthropomorphic Cabinet", by Dalí.
Hours: 9:00 am and 8:00 pm, Monday through Sunday.
Free admission.
Available until April 17
Where: San Francisco Atrium, next to the Latin American Tower; Avenida Francisco I. Madero 7, Historic Center of CDMX.
The military collaboration between Spain and the people of Tlaxcala was recorded in the codex called Lienzo de Tlaxcala, from the 16th century. This is an original document whose whereabouts are unknown (although it is believed that there were three originals), but it exists a copy made in the eighteenth century.
The exhibition Painting the Canvas of Tlaxcala sought to use the artistic techniques used by the Tlaxcalans 500 years ago to make a contemporary recreation of this codex.
Hours: From 11:00 am and 5:00 pm, from Thursday to Sunday.
Cost: 30 pesos.
Available until April 24
Where: At the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center. Avenida Ricardo Flores Magón 1, Tlatelolco, Cuauhtémoc mayor's office.
In the Franz Mayer Museum, there is an exhibition dedicated to the Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo, creator of the Comme des Garçons brand and who, according to the museum, has had as a constant "challenging over and over again the premises of the world of fashion fashion, ignoring its traditional function and playing with forms and scale.
Hours: From 11:00 am and 5:00 pm from Tuesday to Friday, and from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Cost: 75 pesos, except on Tuesdays when there is free admission.
Available until March 13.
Where. Hidalgo Avenue 45, Historic Center of CDMX.
