MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES

In 1938, the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva presented his neo-classical touch. In 1976, the museum is moved into a new vertical construction in the eastern sector of the garden. The latter is carried out by the same Villanueva. That year, the original building is temporarily ceded to the Fine Arts Museum, which has since occupied it. The oldest art museum in the country is the only one that analyzes art as a whole. Composed of 5 floors and 6 rooms for temporary exhibitions (both national and foreign), it ends on a terrace where there is a wide panorama. The large collection that comprises this museum covers 6 categories spread over five levels: European, contemporary, Chinese, Egyptian, Latin American and Cubism art. The visitor therefore passes the time from 2 400 B.C. (parts of Egypt) to the th (actuels and age of current multimedia). The collection «Obras sobre papel» (works on paper) presents more than 600 drawings made by artists ranging from to, Eugène Biel Biel, Camille Pissarro and even contemporaries such as Juan Calzadilla, José Bedia and Mira Schendel. But also a myriad of lithographs, prints and engravings of masters such as Durero, Cranach, Piranesi, Goya, Picasso, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Warhol, Luis Guevara Moreno, Edgar Sánchez and Luisa Richter. In the sculpture garden there are works by great masters such as Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Alejandro Otero and Sergio Camargo, among others. In the main lobby: a permanent exhibition of North American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth. The museum has an art library, a documentation centre and an audiovisual room. He organizes cultural activities, dance and theatre performances, workshops, concerts and art courses.