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Papalote Museo del Niño

Papalote Museo del Niño

Ricardo Legorreta

Photo: Jaime Navarro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Bosques de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Client / Owner
—
Year
Completed 1993
Access
Tickets required
Typology
Cultural
Style
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Papalote Museo del Niño is a children's museum in the Bosques de Chapultepec in Mexico City, designed by Ricardo Legorreta and created in 1993. The article names no client and gives no opening date, dimensions or construction history. It describes geometric figures and traditional Mexican tiles, and a building meant for children to touch and experiment in.

More than 288 interactive exhibits fill five areas under the motto touch, play and learn. Soy covers body and mind, Comunico covers communication, Pertenezco covers one's place in the world and the environment, Comprendo covers physics, mathematics, chemistry and geology, and Expreso covers creativity and art.

An IMAX screen holds more than 333 people. Next to it, the Jardín Maya recreates a prehispanic setting with a pyramid to explore. The article also mentions sister museums in Cuernavaca and Monterrey. It gives no hours or admission details.

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