Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

The Museo Tamayo opened in 1981 in Chapultepec Park, founded by the celebrated Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. He created it to share his personal collection of international modern art with the Mexican public and to connect the country's audiences to global currents in contemporary practice. Now a federal contemporary art museum, the Tamayo presents international and Mexican contemporary art through a program of exhibitions, commissions, and displays drawn from its collection. Its low-slung, terraced building, designed to harmonize with the surrounding park, remains a distinctive piece of modern Mexican architecture. The museum's relevance lies in its role as a long-established pillar of Mexico City's now-thriving contemporary scene, complementing the city's newer private institutions and reinforcing the capital's status as a Latin American art hub.

Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public contemporary art museum located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, that produces contemporary art exhibitions, using its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as artworks from the collection of its founder, the artist Rufino Tamayo. Source: Wikipedia