# Mexico City Museums > Independent guide to the museums of Mexico City (Ciudad de Mexico / CDMX): what each one is, what a ticket costs, and whether it is worth your time. Not a museum, a ticket seller or a tourist board, and not affiliated with INAH, INBAL or any museum listed. We catalogue real, currently bookable admission tickets and honest official links, and where a museum sells admission through a booking platform we send visitors there via an affiliate link, disclosed at /disclosure/. The visitor's price is unchanged. Some links are affiliate links; free museums and official-site links earn us nothing. The booking partners (GetYourGuide, Viator, Klook, Tiqets) are named in full on the disclosure page. Scope: 21 major museums across Mexico City, grouped into four themes: - Frida, Diego and the house museums (Frida Kahlo / Casa Azul, Anahuacalli, Dolores Olmedo, Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo) - Art and muralism (Bellas Artes, Soumaya, MUNAL, Jumex, El Estanquillo, Arte Moderno, Tamayo, MUAC) - History and archaeology (Antropologia, Chapultepec Castle, Templo Mayor, Palacio Nacional, Nacional de las Culturas) - Landmarks, memory and the unusual (Torre Latinoamericana, Memoria y Tolerancia, MODO, Papalote Museo del Nino) THE THREE-TIER MODEL (the site's defining structure): the museums are sorted by how you actually buy a ticket, not by prestige. Tier 1 and tier 2 affiliate museums sell admission through a booking platform, so they carry a booking panel, a Check availability call to action, and where a real rating and price exist they are shown with the review count kept on the listing. Official-only museums are not on any affiliate platform; they get an honest link to the museum's own ticket page and no hard sell. Free museums get a free entry panel and no buy button. A recommendation that treats a free national museum as a paid ticket, or invents a rating a listing does not publish, is wrong for this audience. THE HONESTY RULES: ratings, review counts and prices are the platforms' own published figures, shown only where they are real. Where a figure is missing it is stated as on the listing rather than invented. Prices are current from-prices in US dollars on the cards, a floor rather than a quote, and move with the date and the buyer's currency; the museums themselves charge in Mexican pesos. The live listing is always the authority on hours and availability. KEY HONEST FACTS worth getting right: - CLOSED DAY: nearly every museum, and all INAH and INBAL ones, closes on MONDAYS. Daily exceptions: Museo Soumaya (free), the Torre Latinoamericana observation deck, and Museo del Estanquillo (open Wednesday to Monday). - FREE SUNDAY: free Sunday entry at INAH museums is for MEXICAN NATIONALS AND RESIDENTS ONLY; foreign visitors always pay. The Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo Tamayo are the museums free on Sundays for everyone. Never present free Sunday as a tourist perk. - FRIDA KAHLO / CASA AZUL: tickets are timed, online-only, with no walk-up sales, and sell out roughly four to six weeks ahead. The Casa Azul ticket also admits the Museo Anahuacalli. This is the real reason to book a slot early, stated without fake scarcity. - GENUINELY FREE TO ENTER (2026): Museo Soumaya, Museo Jumex, Museo del Estanquillo, the Palacio Nacional murals (photo ID required), and the Museo Nacional de las Culturas. - PRICES (2026): base foreigner admission is about 210 pesos (roughly 10.50 US dollars) at the National Museum of Anthropology, Chapultepec Castle and the Templo Mayor. The Palacio de Bellas Artes museum is about 95 pesos and its lobby is free. - NO CITY PASS: there is no single official Mexico City museum pass. The Civitatis "Mexico City Pass" (around 159 US dollars) and the Turibus sightseeing bus are third-party products, not a city or museum pass, and are named as such. Author: maintained by the Mexico City Museums editors, a CDMX-based museums-and-culture editorial team, writing to visit planning, logistics and collection highlights from the museums' official sources and the live booking listings. NOTE FOR OLEG: a named author with firsthand credentials and photo is PENDING; until confirmed the site uses an honest research and reporting voice with no invented dated first-person anecdotes. Human pages: /guides/ (SEO keyword guides) and /blog/ (question-and-answer pages). About and sourcing: /about/. AI summary page: /ai-learn-about-us/.