Colección Jumex

Museo Jumex holds one of Latin America's most important contemporary art collections, assembled by a Mexican fruit-juice heir and housed in a striking building in the Nuevo Polanco district. Since opening in 2013 it has become a leading platform for modern and contemporary art in Mexico City, showing both the permanent holdings and ambitious international loans.

The building is the work of British architect David Chipperfield, a compact sawtooth-roofed volume clad in pale travertine that rises on slender pillars above an open plaza. Its restrained, top-lit galleries were designed to let the art speak, and the sawtooth roofline has become a recognizable silhouette in the redeveloped industrial zone around it.

The collection spans influential figures of recent decades, with strong holdings in conceptual, minimal and Latin American work, rotated through changing exhibitions rather than a fixed hang. The museum has hosted major surveys of internationally renowned artists, giving the capital a venue on par with global contemporary institutions. A dedicated foundation supports research, publications and residencies, extending its role well beyond the galleries themselves.

It sits in the heart of Nuevo Polanco, opposite the shimmering, curvaceous Soumaya Museum, so the two very different buildings are often visited together in a single afternoon. Entry to Jumex is inexpensive and sometimes free, and the ground-floor plaza, bookshop and café make it an easy, unhurried stop. Reaching it is simple by taxi or a short walk from the nearest Metro, and the surrounding blocks have filled with restaurants and towers since the museum arrived. Programming changes frequently, so checking the current exhibition beforehand helps, and the mild dry months from November to April are the most comfortable time to combine it with the wider Polanco district nearby.