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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 156 museums
Best museums in Mexico City
The 10 most notable museums in Mexico City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Diego Rivera Mural Museum
Calle Colón Balderas s/n
131 m from Hidalgo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.160, percentile 100 of 156
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2
Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum
C. Salvador Novo 88
481 m from Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.160, percentile 99.35 of 156
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3
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
CALLE JUSTO SIERRA 16
330 m from Zócalo/Tenochtitlan, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.159, percentile 98.71 of 156
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4
Museo de la Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe
Allende 5 Plaza de las Américas 1 Col
334 m from Hospital Infantil La Villa, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.158, percentile 98.06 of 156
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5
Centro de la Imagen
Plaza de la Ciudadela 2, Balderas 137
203 m from Balderas, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.156, percentile 97.42 of 156
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6
Museo del Caracol
PEATONAL PEATONAL DEL CERRO
696 m from Juanacatlán, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.155, percentile 96.77 of 156
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7
Museo Dolores Olmedo
Avenida México 5843, Xochimilco Nb, 16030 Xochimilco, CDMX, México
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.155, percentile 96.13 of 156
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8
Museo Indígena
Av. P.º de la Reforma 707
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.154, percentile 95.48 of 156
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Museo Franz Mayer
Avenida Hidalgo 45
152 m from Bellas Artes, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.154, percentile 94.84 of 156
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10
Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo
Moneda 13
270 m from Zócalo/Tenochtitlan, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.154, percentile 94.19 of 156
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).