GUARDIAN / J Tuckman
Currently, Mexico's and the world's richest man Carlos Slim, 71, has built and just unveiled a new Mexico City museum that houses a priceless art collection in 6,800 sq meters filled with some of his 66,000-piece collection.
European masters like Tintoretto, Murillo, El Greco, Rubens, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Dali and Miro are featured.
It also has the biggest collection of Rodin sculptures outside of France.
Slim said that the museum's concentration on European masters would enrich Mexicans who cannot afford to travel.
Slim is listed as the richest man in the world today mainly because Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have given much of their money away.
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