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Papalote Children's Museum: Exterior · Photo showing the blue tiles building of the Papalote Museum in Mexico City
1/6 · Exterior · Photo showing the blue tiles building of the Papalote Museum in Mexico CityPhoto: Flama23 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Papalote Children's Museum: Exterior · Papalote Museo del Niño
2/6 · Exterior · Papalote Museo del NiñoPhoto: Gobierno CDMX · CC0 · source
Papalote Children's Museum: Exterior · Papalote Museo del Niño
3/6 · Exterior · Papalote Museo del NiñoPhoto: Gobierno CDMX · CC0 · source
Papalote Children's Museum: Exterior · edificios en Reforma y Viaducto
4/6 · Exterior · edificios en Reforma y ViaductoPhoto: Álvaro de la Paz Franco · CC0 · source
Papalote Children's Museum: Interior · View from inside of the Árbol Ramón, the resemblance to a real tree can be seen
5/6 · Interior · View from inside of the Árbol Ramón, the resemblance to a real tree can be seenPhoto: Flama23 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Papalote Children's Museum: Detail · Close up picture from an arch at the Papalote Museum in Mexico City
6/6 · Detail · Close up picture from an arch at the Papalote Museum in Mexico CityPhoto: Flama23 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Photo showing the blue tiles building of the Papalote Museum in Mexico CityPhoto 2: Exterior · Papalote Museo del NiñoPhoto 3: Exterior · Papalote Museo del NiñoPhoto 4: Exterior · edificios en Reforma y ViaductoPhoto 5: Interior · View from inside of the Árbol Ramón, the resemblance to a real tree can be seenPhoto 6: Detail · Close up picture from an arch at the Papalote Museum in Mexico City

Museum · Regionalism

Papalote Children's Museum

Ricardo Legorreta · Mexico City, Mexico · 1993

Key featuresBold coloured blocks and a blue-tiled sphere housing the dome cinema, beside Chapultepec forest.

Architect
Ricardo Legorreta
Place
Mexico City, Mexico
Year
1993
Typology
Museum
Movement
Regionalism
Region
Americas
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