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Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
The Museo Soumaya is a private museum owned by the Carlos Slim Foundation. It holds works by many known European artists from the 15th to the 20th centuries. It also holds Mexican arts, religious relics, and historical documents and coins. It contains the largest collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside of France.
Although founded in 1994, it opened this second location in the northern part of Mexico City in 2011. The over 70 million USD building was designed by Mexican architect Fernando Romero and engineered with Ove Arup and Frank Gehry. The 46-metre (151 ft) high six story building is covered by 16,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles.