An example of investment in the arts.
In the center of Mexico City, thanks to large businesses across from each other will be built two of the museum. One of them will be initiated by the head of the largest in Mexico, the manufacturer of juices and nectars Jumex Eugenio Lopez Alonso (Eugenio Lopez Alonso), who next month will choose the architect's bureau for the design of the building exhibition center.
The second museum in the project to reorganize the city center, which provides Grupo Carso SA, owned by billionaire and telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helou (Carlos Slim Helu), will Soumaya Museum.
The gallery Sliema Soumaya Museum, which is due to open in 2010, planned to place 1,600 impressionnists and Mexican modernists. The museum will be exhibited Jumex 1,700 works of contemporary artists in Mexico. Since 2001, they demonstrated at the plant Jumex in northern Mexico.
Lopez, who, according to some estimates, supports more than a third of contemporary Mexican artists, sits on the board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New Museum of Contemporary Art) in New York. Carlos Slim, whose fortune is estimated at 59 billion dollars in August 2007 was recognized by Fortune magazine as the richest man of the world, ahead of Bill Gates. According to the journal The Forbes, the state of Gates and Slim are about equal.
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