The National Art Museum occupies the former Palace of Communications, a massive stone building characterized by its elaborate, tiered facade and a soaring central courtyard covered by a vast glass roof. Completed in nineteen eleven, the building served as the headquarters for the national postal and telegraph services during the Porfiriato era. Engineer Silvio Contri designed the structure to project modern European grandeur, even importing marble and ironwork from Italy. The telegraph lines inside once linked the farthest reaches of Mexico to this capital.
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