The El Eco Experimental Museum is a place where artistic practices around spatial reflection are activated. Based on the legacy of Mathias Goeritz, El Eco constitutes a resonance box and tension between modernity and the contemporary.[1]​.

As a university environment, it is a platform for knowledge that favors experimentation, freedom and risk.

In 1952, during a painting and sculpture exhibition at the Mexican Art Gallery, the artist Mathias Goeritz met Daniel Mont, a Mexican businessman interested in projects related to restaurants, bars and art galleries. This is how Goeritz remembers it: "Look, once a guy appeared, in an exhibition of mine at the Inés Amor gallery (Galería de Arte Mexicano), who asked me to build a building for him, I clarified to him that I was not an architect and surprisingly he responded that he would not have looked for me if I had been an architect. That's how I started the Echo for this man who has probably been the best friend I have ever had, he was a wonderful man, his name was Daniel, my son is named Daniel after him.".

This patron commissioned Goeritz to build a place that would articulate a new relationship between his commercial interests and the avant-garde spirit of some cultural actors of the time, with the intention of finding something different from what was established. Under the premise “do whatever you want”, Mathias Goeritz built the Museo Experimental el Eco on Sullivan Street in Mexico City. It was designed as a poetic structure whose arrangement of corridors, ceilings, walls, enclosures and openings led its visitors to reflect their experience of the space in an emotional act; This concept challenged the increasingly dominant interests of functionalism during this time. Basing his design on the Emotional Architecture Manifesto, also inspired by religious experience and Gothic and Baroque architecture, Goeritz conceived the building as a penetrable sculpture. This space allowed its creator and benefactor to create a multidisciplinary and comprehensive platform for the arts, unprecedented in the context of Mexican and international art of the 1950s.[2]​.

Part of the enigma, mysticism and power of The Echo lies in the erratic life he has led over the years. It began as an experimental museum whose intention was to expand the languages ​​of the arts. Later it was a restaurant, nightclub, theater and meeting place for political activities. All of these roles dramatically altered its architectural structure during the fifty-two years that followed Daniel Mont's death in 1953.