Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

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The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV) is a museum in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo .

The museum is located in the district ( barrio ) Parque Rodo in the Avenida Tomás Giribaldi 2283 , corner Avenida Julio Herrera y Reissig . It was founded on December 10, 1911 by Law No. 3.932 and was originally called the Museo de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts) and was initially housed in the left wing of the Teatro Solís for the first year of its existence . In the following year, however, the museum moved to a pavilion at its current location, which was built in the 19th century and previously served as the location of a health exhibition ( Exposición de Higiene ). Other sources date the construction of the building, which was designed by the architect Leopoldo J. Tosi , to the year 1907.

In the course of time, various alterations took place, which among other things led to the museum being closed for almost eleven years from 1952 to 1962. The first renovation in 1912, with which the building was redesigned for its future use as a museum, was headed by architect Alfredo R. Campos . Later structural changes in 1970 go back to Clorindo Testa . In the 1990s, the museum's garden was designed by architects L. Silva Delgado and F. Fabiano .

The founding director of the museum was the painter Domingo Laporte , who held this position until 1928. Since 2010 the artist Enrique Aguerre has been the director. The museum, which is considered the most important art museum in the country and has around 6,000 works of art, contains the largest collection of works by Uruguayan artists. These include, for example, objects by Rafael Barradas , Juan Manuel Blanes , José Cuneo , Pedro Figari , Carlos Federico Sáez or Joaquín Torres García .

Previous museum directors

literature

  • Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , p. 240.

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Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 50 ″  S , 56 ° 9 ′ 53 ″  W.