宇宁: Mexico City Day 6

Museo Soumaya

Decide to go to Museo Soumaya in the am before we fly back home.

Museo Soumaya with the thinker outside

The thinker conception inside

Chanced into hello Kitty Cafe and dragged Bill into absolute cuteness Cafe 😂

Cuteness overload

After that we ventured into the museum which is quite impressive. It's a free museum with the owner buying a ton of Rodin and other sculptures casts (they are not final sculptures but concepts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker

The first one to greet us is David, albeit much smaller

Fake David.. I think his hands aren't right

Piety, very similar to original

Room full of conception casts

It's interesting to see some details missing in the casts compared to the final statues

The bigger hand sculpture is final with smaller iterations

The cast to the left vs the original

Other interesting exhibits that caught my eye

Renoir sculptures

Portrait by Renoir

Dali scultpures

Chinese ivory sculptures

Couple of Monets, not quite typical

She seems famous in the Mexican Art section

Watches

More watches

Cute trinkets

It was a great museum visit to conclude our 5 days Mexico City trip. Chatting with others, Bill is right that we got lucky with our timing. We didn't really get heavy rain in the day time. We only got heavy rain in 2 evenings and it cooled off the city and clean off the pollution so it's really pleasant. The weather is perfect.

My thoughts for this city is it has a lot to offer as it has seen a lot in time. For a very small city, it packs a lot and can get overwhelming.

Random Mexico sights