Museum of international contemporary art Rufino Tamayo became a haven for thousands of creative works by contemporary authors. In addition there is a restaurant and a shop. The Museum building is located in Chapultepec Park in downtown Mexico city.

Designed and supervised the construction of the Museum building two architects. - Theodore Gonzalez de Leon and Abraham Zabludovsky. Upon completion of the work on this project both received the State prize of Mexico for architecture. The official opening of the Museum took place on 29 may 1981.

Now the Museum is part of the cultural complex, which also included the national Museum of anthropology and the State historical Museum. Running a Museum was opened after reconstruction on August 26, 2012, the day of the 113th anniversary of the birth of Rufino Tamayo's modernist artist, in whose honor and was named the Museum.

After the reconstruction, which lasted throughout the year, there was opened a documentation centre works Tamayo. Also here are his books, slides, photographs, a library, in which you can find information about each artist whose work is exhibited in the Museum.

The exhibition hall is quite spacious and is divided into six major sections. The total hall area of about 1900 square meters. Among the exhibits you will find a number of interesting works: it's not only paintings, but unusual composition, the authors of which, perhaps, allowed the audience to invest in them, and for each it can be your.