Big ass museum part deux

Ok, not as big as the one I went to yesterday, but big enough that I spent a couple of hours there. The Museo Nacional de Arte contains Mexican art from the 16th to 20th century. The building is as impressive. It's neoclassical (apparently) and people go nuts taking pictures. There was a couple on the stairs with a photographer lying on the steps taking a picture of their hands so they had the ceiling as the backdrop.

I had not realized that Sunday was their free day, so when I got there ten minutes after opening, there was a long line outside. It was crowded at first but thinned out after the first exhibit. I would been happy to pay the 95 Mexican pesos for more breathing room. Just as a point of reference, that is $5 and change. I just looked it up; admission to the De Young Museum is $20 and to the SF MOMA is $30. The most I have paid for any museum admission has been 100 Mexica Pesos. The tour to Teotihuacan was $44. 

They did ask you to pay 5 Mexican Pesos for permission to take pictures. They give you this stylish ring as proof.

The exhibition on the ground floor went from death, to the tarot, to astrology, to mediums. It got decidedly more churchy later.

Some of my favorite work here was by Adolfo Mexiac:

They had a room of sculpture, many with mythical themes:

And then things got super churchy. We know Delia is not churchy.

In that last one, Jesus seems super chill. 

There was an exhibition on German List Arzubide. He was Mexican, not German. I am saying these names like I've heard of them before; I haven't.

Just when I thought I had got to all of it, I noticed an exhibition on the telegraph.

That was about it. I promised myself no more running and looking at stuff. I came back to my hotel room, got a cappuccino and a pretzel shaped pastry. I went to dinner down the block. I ordered a sandwich and got this:

I felt a lot of pressure. If I wasn't leaving tomorrow I would have saved one. So instead I massacred it:

That's it. I fly to NY, via Atlanta tomorrow. Hopefully my luggage also arrives. I'm considering putting cloths in my backpack just in case. 

Thanks for reading.