Palacio de Bellas Artes travel guide

This magnificent building holds a theatre and two museums.

The building (1900–1904) was commissioned by the government under the dictator Porfirio Díaz and, for the most part, designed by the Italian architect Adami Boari.
The palace clearly shows Art Nouveau and Art Deco style elements. Much of the building material consists of Carrara (Italian) marble. Due to its weight, the massive building has sunk more than 4m/13ft into the swampy ground over its lifetime; the sinking continued even after removing part of the dome covering in an attempt to reduce its weight. During construction work in front of the palace in the 1990s, about 2,000 pre-Hispanic artefacts and 200 graves from colonial times came to light. The headquarters of the National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes) since 1946, the palace now serves mostly as an opera house and concert hall. Visitors can marvel at some of the most beautiful Frescoes Mexican murals on the second and third floors of the building created by Rufino Tamayos from the early 1950s, Diego Riviera, David Álfaro Siquieros and José Clemente Orozcos.

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