The largest museum of Fine Arts to be built in Mexico City

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The largest museum of Fine Arts to be built in Mexico City

14/06/201003: 18

MEXICO CITY, June 13 - RIA Novosti, Yury Nikolayev. The richest man in the world, tycoon Carlos Slim build in the Mexican capital, the largest in Latin America, Museum of Fine Arts, told reporters on Sunday, Alfonso Miranda (Alfonso Miranda) , Director of the Museum. Soumayya.

Museum of Fine Arts will be built by the Mexican billionaire in 2011. On its six floors will house exhibition halls with a total area of over 17 thousand square meters.

The new museum Carlos Slim allocates almost half of his collection, which totals over 66,000 unique items.

The basis of future exposure will be 300 works by the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin, one of the founders of Impressionism in sculpture.

It is believed that after France, the richest collection of Rodin is slim. In particular, he owned "The Thinker" and "Kiss" - one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin created in the period from 1880 to 1886 years.

Visitors can also see the work of Rubens, El Greco, Leonardo da Vinci, Augusto Renoir, Claude Monet, Picasso, Diego Rivera.

"The new museum will be open to visitors free of charge. It will give opportunity to see rare works, who is currently in private collections Sliema," - said Alfonso Miranda.

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