Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ( MNBA ) ( German: National Museum of Fine Arts) is an art museum in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. His collection is one of the most important in Latin America. 2004, a branch was opened in Neuquén.

History

The museum was opened on 25 December 1895 in the building on the Calle Florida, where today is located the mall Galerias Pacífico. The first director was the painter and art critic Eduardo Schiaffino. 1909 the museum moved to San Martin area, in a building that was originally built as Argentine Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was dismantled after the exhibition and transported to Buenos Aires. At this location, the museum was part of the Exposicià Internacional del Centenario 1910. During a redesign of the Plaza San Martín, the building was demolished in 1932, and the museum moved in 1933 to its present location on Avenida del Libertador in the Recoleta district. This was originally built in 1870 as a pump station and was rebuilt for its new purpose as a museum by the architect Alejandro Bustillo.

1961 the building was extended by an annex for temporary exhibitions, and in 1980 was added a pavilion for Contemporary Argentine Art. This is with an area of ​​1,536 m² the largest of the 34 rooms of the museum, which has a total of 4,610 m² of exhibition space. For the permanent collection of the museum includes 688 larger and more than 12,000 smaller works, such as sketches, fragments, ceramics, among others The museum also has a library with 150,000 volumes and an auditorium for lectures.

The ground floor has 24 exhibition rooms for an international collection from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. There is also the library. The first floor houses eight rooms in which some of the most important Argentine painter of the 20th century are exhibited, including Antonio Berni, Ernesto de la Carcova, Benito Quinquela Martín, Eduardo Sívori, Alfredo Guttero, Raquel Forner, Xul Solar and Lino Enea Spilimbergo. On the second floor, completed in 1984, photographs and sculptures can be seen.

2004, a branch was opened in the Patagonian city of Neuquen. The construction by the architect Mario Roberto Álvarez. The building has four exhibition halls with a total of 2,500 m², 215 works of art and an auditorium. In addition to the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions are held.

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