museums of art: Canada and Mexico

Canada and Mexico

The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) holds that country's foremost public art collection. In Mexico City the major collections are the Palace of Fine Art and the National Museum of Anthropology, which houses a vast treasure of Mexican art and important archaeological discoveries as well as a superb ethnographic collection.

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