What: Museo del Calzado de Borcegui
Where: in a side street in the centre of Mexico City
Opening hours: Mondays to Fridays 11-14.00 & 16-18.00 ; closed weekends
Fee: it’s free. At least I didn’t pay anything
Website: https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=museo&table_id=969
A surprisingly cool and, at least for me personally, very interesting and almost a bit funny-ulky museum.
I walked into this museum completely by chance. It’s in a side street of the centre and I thought it was a shoe shop at first – seriously. I urgently needed new shoes, went in and well…. Found myself in a shoe museum. As I didn’t have time for a museum at that moment because I urgently needed new shoes, I marked the place on my map app (back then it was maps.me, now I use organic maps), then did a quick check on Google and when I had the time returned.
Guys, I honestly don’t understand why I haven’t read about this museum on any blog or anywhere else. The shoes displayed here are… I’ve seen a shoe with a thick sole and a thing for the toes at the front made entirely of wood. Or a shoe made entirely of straws, as well as one with like a long pin made entirely of metal.
There were ski boots from the past, high as well as flat boots from all possible eras. Plus I loved the boot with the plush. Simply hilarious. Especially in contrast to the wooden one, the straw one and the metal one. I really had fun in there and had to think of a very good friend all the time who would have had the time of her life in there 😀
Go or not? Since I can’t understand why I haven’t read about this museum anywhere before, YES! Of course museums aren’t the most important thing in Mexico City. But the museum is just cool in its own way and honestly also really quirky and just a hall where you walk through once downstairs and once upstairs and marvel at the shoes. Which tbh sometimes really fascinate. Plus I think I was almost completely alone in there the whole time. As I said, nobody seems to know it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not cool. So get in there! 😀
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