Mexico's national museum of European art occupies the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado 50 in Colonia Tabacalera, in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. Signs give its Spanish name, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, and the museum was founded in 1968.
The collection centres on European painters and sculptors, with works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Auguste Rodin among other well-known names. It suits visitors who want to see European painting and sculpture in Mexico City.
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