The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.
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| Location | Colonia Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City |
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| Public transit access | Museo San Carlos bus station |
| Website | www |
The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.
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