Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria
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Santander , Cantabria 
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Art museum
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| opening | February 6, 1908 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 41,329 (2016) |
| management |
Salvador Carretero Rebés
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The Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria ( MAS ) is an art museum in Santander , Spain. Today the museum focuses on modern and contemporary art .
history
The museum was founded in the rooms of the city hall and as part of the city library in 1907 under the name Biblioteca y Museo Municipales and opened to the public on February 6, 1908. At the time, the collection included paintings and sculptures as well as archaeological finds, natural history and ethnographic objects.
In 1923 the city had a new building for library and museum built according to designs by the Spanish architect Leonardo Rucabado (1875–1918) in the historicizing style. The library moved into its own building in 1941 and the museum moved into the entire previous building. At the same time, the museum began to change its collection policy. While the paintings and sculptures remained, the archaeological, natural history and ethnological fund were distributed to other museums in Santander and the Cantabria region. On November 3, 1947, the museum reopened under the new name Museo Municipal de Pinturas (Municipal Painting Museum). In 1957, the name changed again to Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santander (Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santander).
From 1978 onwards, the museum increasingly turned to younger artists from the Cantabrian region, and the interiors were also renovated and modernized. The museum specialized more and more in modern and contemporary art and made this clear by changing its name again in 2011 to the current name Museum de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Santander and Cantabria).
The building is a listed building and is registered in Spain's Bien de Interés Cultural Monument Register under the reference RI-51-0001399.
Collections
As of 2017, the museum houses 1870 works from the genres of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and installation art. About 100 works are by Spanish, Flemish and Italian artists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The greater part includes art from the 19th to the 21st century, with Spanish artists predominating, around 150 works by foreign artists.
Famous works
- La tauromaquia , Francisco Goya , 1816
- The Death of the Bull (La muerte de Toro), Umberto Pettinicchio , 130 × 97.4 cm, 1981
- Grabados Suite Vollard , Pablo Picasso , 1931
Publications
The museum publishes the museum magazine Trasdós and numerous catalogs on the exhibitions.
From the collection
Older paintings
Portrait of Ferdinand VII by Francisco de Goya , 1814, oil on canvas, 225 × 124 cm
Germán Gamazo by Francisco Maura y Montaner , around 1888 to 1890, oil on canvas, 114 × 86 cm
Tristán e Iseo (La vida) by Rogelio de Egusquiza , 1912, oil on canvas, 227 × 162 cm
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Web links
- Museum website (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b MAS: Memoria 2016. Accessed December 9, 2017 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c Pasado, presente y futuro. In: museosantandermas.es. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, accessed December 9, 2017 (Spanish).
- ↑ Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. N ° Registro: 0616