Mexico City - Museo Nacional de Arte

The imposing building opposite Palacio de Minéra, at Calle Tacuba 8, built in the early 1900s by the Italian architect Silvio Contri, housed the offices of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works for a number of years. Since 1982 it has contained the new Museo Nacional de Arte, with two floors of 22 rooms in all displaying exhibits ranging from Maya sculptures to religious items from the Spanish colonial period and 19th C. landscape paintings through to contemporary art.