Invisible on the roof of a building at the Mexico City downtown, now besieged by informal trade, is the Tower of the Thousand Windows. The building is none other than the Palacio de los Condes de Santiago de Calimaya current headquarters of the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico (MCM).
The beauty of the building and the successful proposal for museum exhibitions are not the only appeal available to the Mexico City Museum, situated on top of those stairs guarded by lions, is the study of Joaquín Clausell, the largest representative of Impressionism in Mexico. The walls of this long room were converted by this artist (who said not to be) in a kind of Mexican Sistine Chapel, there are preserved around 1300 small scenes, pictures or sketches-painted oil paintings in a mesmerizing blend of landscapes, mythological characters, symbols, visions, allegories, spirits and rough seas. Clausell technique had the influence impressionist Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, whom he met personally during a voluntary exile in Paris in the late nineteenth century. Joaquín Clausell developed a Mexican-tinged impressionism can be seen in various scenes of his studio.