Two Museums in México

Abstract

1. Modem Art Museum, at México City This consists of two buildings, the Art Museum and the Art Gallery. The first has two floor levels and contains six circular halls for exhibitions, linked together by common utilities (public, administrative and maintenance offices), and by a large vestibule, which is also round and extends up to the second floor. The art gallery also has two floors, and has a circular exhibition hall on the second floor, and various services in the lower floor. A central vestibule connects both floors and the exterior. The formal expressivity of both blocks and the surrounding site are highly impressive because of their harmony and plasticity. 2. Ciudad Juárez Museum This museum has a central block, of circular base, which is occupied with four exhibition halls, and a second block, concentric with the first one, which also contains a number of exhibition rooms. The fortunate arrangement of volumes, their shape and texture, and their emplacement in the centre of a lake, make this an especially attractive building.