All of the heads of state from Latin American countries have been invited, and guests will include Larry King, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, Queen Noor of Jordan, former Spanish president Felipe González, his friends the Rothschilds, and hopefully Bill Clinton, with whom Mr Slim has launched a series of charitable initiatives.

The billionaire’s Carlos Slim Foundation will fund the museum’s costs in their entirety. It is one of his biggest philanthropic gifts to date.

The museum will house over 66,000 pieces, mainly European and Mexican art. From Cézanne to Renoir, Van Gogh to Matisse, da Vinci to Rivera, the jaw-dropping collection is the result of many years of passionate study and accumulation.

It also includes the world’s largest collection of pre-Hispanic and colonial coins, plus a vast collection of letters and historical documents. Visitors will be able to read Christopher Columbus’s letters, or study the writings of Hernán Cortés and the Catholic Kings of Spain.

For the past 16 years, the collection has been housed in a museum in the south of the capital. Its director, Alfonso Miranda, put the value at easily over $700 million (£435 million).It will be free to view the Museum for the public.

The new museum will be an enormous structure designed by Mr Slim’s son-in-law Fernando Romero. The striking cloud-shaped gallery has been designed to twist in the middle, echoing the curves of a Rodin sculpture.
The shining silver structure will be covered with 16,000 hexagonal pieces to catch the light, and is the centrepiece of a $750 million development at Plaza Carso.

Mr Slim has already chosen the position of his favourite work – The Thinker, which now sits inside the vestibule, covered in bubble-wrap, contemplating the army of hard-hatted workers who scurry past to finish the project in time.

Facing that will hang another favourite: a giant mural – Naturaleza Muerta – by the Mexican Rufino Tamayo.

His late wife, who Carlos named the Museo Soumaya after, was a particular admirer of Rodin – one of the earliest pieces the couple bought was Rodin’s Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose – and Mr Slim has eagerly adopted her enthusiasm for the French sculptor.

Alfonso Miranda the museum’s director said that the most valuable piece was probably from Leonardo da Vinci’s studio

Madonna dei Fusi (Madonna of the Yarnwinder).

Soumaya Slim, who really taught him about sculpture and paintings, died in 1999 from kidney problems. The couple had six children – Carlos, Marco Antonio, Patrick, Soumaya, Vanessa and Johanna – most of whom work in his empire.Mr Slim met Soumaya Domit Gemayel when he was 24 – their mothers, both of Lebanese-Mexican ancestry, were friends – and they married in 1966.

Carlos Slim and his family lives in Mexico City in The “Lomas de Chapultepec”

area, in the western hills of the city, was built in the 1930s and designed to house Mexico City’s elite in elegant mansions among tree-lined boulevards. His business is here, as is his home.

“Carlos Slim is one of the world’s most important philanthropists and most people have never heard about his humanitarian activities. He owns stock in more than 200 companies that employ more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. He has used his resources to help develop the communities where his businesses are located. In his own country, Mexico, he has personally supported more than 165,000 young people in attending university, paid for numerous surgeries, provided equipment for rural schools and covered surety bonds for 50,000 people who were entitled to their freedom but could not afford. He recently created the Carso Institute for Health, and designed it to provide a new approach to health care in Mexico. He has four billion dollars of investments ready to promote education, health and other great challenges, and has recently announced an additional six billion dollar investment in several programs, including his Telmex Foundation.”

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