Museo Nacional de San Carlos

The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palace of the Count of Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.

The institution
The museum was founded in 1968 by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura to house the collection of European art.

Directors

 * 1997 - 2004: Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo
 * ... - 2011: Maria Fernanda Matos Moctezuma
 * 2011 - ...: Carmen Gaitán

Sculptures

 * James Pradier, Bacchante
 * Auguste Rodin, The call to arms
 * Miguel E. Schulz, Diana
 * Manuel Vilar, Charles Borromeo

Other

 * Flemish tapestry Battle, from the 17th century