Biblioteca Vasconcelos

· Experience · Buenavista

THE TAKE

Alberto Kalach's cathedral of books, where steel shelves float in mid-air and a gray whale's skeleton hangs at the center.

WHY IT’S WORTH IT

1Designed by Alberto Kalach with TAX, it is one of the most photographed pieces of contemporary architecture in Mexico, a vast luminous hall of suspended steel bookshelves.

2Gabriel Orozco's permanent Matrix Movil, a real gray whale skeleton inscribed with thousands of graphite circles, floats through the central void.

3A free public megabiblioteca opened in 2006 that doubles as a civic landmark and a working library with hundreds of thousands of volumes.

BUSINESS INFO

Monday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Tuesday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Wednesday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Thursday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Friday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Saturday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Sunday8:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Eje 1 Nte. S/N, Buenavista, Cuauhtémoc, 06350 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

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