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This weekend in CDMX A new show in Granada, a table in Roma, a dance floor in Hipódromo. Build around one good idea and leave space for the rest. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
On the calendar On the house Event Exhibitions
A major Richard Prince exhibition opens Jumex’s autumn season. Make room for images that ask who gets to own a familiar picture.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Activities
A Saturday session at Antropología connects the story of maize with a small crochet project. Beginners are welcome in the museum’s announcement.
Sat 26 Sept MX$50
Event Concerts
Il Furore revisits Bach’s Goldberg Variations with four historical instrumental voices at Festival CulturaUNAM.
Sat 26 Sept MX$100
Event Exhibitions
Thirteen film channels and Cate Blanchett’s changing roles turn artists’ manifestos into a room-sized encounter at MUAC.
Sat 26 Sept MX$60
Event Exhibitions
Water, listening and the memory of Guadeloupe shape an exhibition that asks for a quieter pace at MUAC.
Sat 26 Sept MX$60
Event Activities
Myth and live music frame a writer's experience of neurodivergence.
Fri 25 Sept MX$150
Event Activities
A man's testimony exposes a lifetime shaped by exclusion.
Fri 25 Sept MX$80
On the house Event Activities
Free theatre by Mariana Giménez and the ENAT student company.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Activities
Expanded circus questions ability through two people's lived experiences.
Fri 25 Sept MX$150
On the house Event Concerts
Francisco Ageo joins the chamber orchestra for two free pavilion concerts.
Fri 25 Sept Free
On the house Event Activities
Goethe's Faust returns through a small-scale ENAT production.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Concerts
A Sunday piano recital in Sala Manuel M. Ponce.
Sun 27 Sept MX$75
Event Concerts
Cello virtuosity and Mahler mark a reopening and several university anniversaries.
Sat 26 Sept From MX$600
Event Activities
Frontón and family memory become a reflection on masculinity.
Fri 25 Sept MX$150
Event Concerts
Monteverdi and Gesualdo reveal a changing musical language around 1600.
Sun 27 Sept MX$100
On the house Event Activities
Dance, shadow theatre and live multimedia create a contemporary fable.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Event Activities
Three clowns put artificial intelligence under a comic spotlight.
Sat 26 Sept From MX$80
Event Concerts
The erhu leads a meeting of Chinese and Mexican chamber-music ideas.
Sun 27 Sept MX$100
Event Activities
Amalia Hernández's company brings its staged folk-dance repertoire to the Palacio.
Sun 27 Sept From MX$350
Event Activities
A child, a grandmother and an imaginative world of animals meet onstage.
Sat 26 Sept MX$80
On the house Event Activities
Rosario Castellanos' satire becomes a free theatre outing in Juárez.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Event Activities
A special performance brings folk dance and a symphony orchestra together.
Sun 27 Sept From MX$350
Event Concerts
Piano, orchestral colour and the Symphonie fantastique meet in Programme 17.
Fri 25 Sept From MX$120
Event Activities
A traveller from another planet discovers what humans share with animals.
Sat 26 Sept From MX$80
Beyond the calendar
A little more of the city. Places selected from our city guide, alongside the dated events above. Check opening hours and reservations before setting out.
Build your itinerary Place Activities
Marble outside, murals inside. Start your Centro Histórico day with a building that rewards a second look.
Place Activities
The Casa Azul gives a Coyoacán day its centre of gravity. Book a time, then leave room for the streets around it.
Free entry Place Activities
A shady detour in Hipódromo, with paths that turn a coffee stop into a longer afternoon outside.
Free entry Place Activities
Trees, lakeside paths and room to breathe between museum visits. Choose one part of the forest and slow down.
Free entry Place Activities
Shelves suspended across a vast reading room. Come for the architecture, then find a book and stay a little longer.
Place Activities
A cultural stop behind the cathedral, where a contemporary programme meets the remains of the city beneath it.
Restaurant Mexican
A Roma table to plan ahead for. Leave the afternoon open and let the current menu decide what lands on it.
Mexican $$$
Restaurant Seafood
Seafood and a long lunch on Durango. Bring an appetite and enough time to let the meal become the plan.
Seafood $$$
Restaurant Mexican
A Centro breakfast or lunch in a tall, stone-columned room. Give the first meal of your museum day a proper table.
Mexican $$
Restaurant Bakery
Bread, coffee and a small beginning to a Roma day. This is the bakery on Colima, across from the restaurant.
Bakery $
Place Activities
High energy, Italo disco and dance circles in a Roma warehouse. A Friday plan for people who came to move.
Place Activities
House records and a room built around its sound system. Make Hipódromo the destination once dinner is over.
Place Activities
A small bar upstairs from Rosetta, for a cocktail and a change of pace before the rest of the night.
Place Concerts
A former cinema gives live music a grand setting near the historic centre.