National museum of Beautiful arts of Argentina

El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ( MNBA ), in French National museum of Beautiful arts of Argentina is a museum of art located at Buenos Aires, in the district of Recoleta, and with Neuquén. This museum constitutes one of the museums of the inheritance of this country and Latin America.

History of the museum

The MNBA is established since 1932 in the old station of drinking water filtering, the Casa Bent (literally house of the pumps )

Bent had been yielded to the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1931 by the Municipality of Buenos Aires Put. In this building, built in 1870, one filtered the water pumped in the Río of Plata and one sent it in a tank located formerly at the site of the Plaza of los Dos Congresos. The modifications of the building related to its new assignment were entrusted to the architect Alejandro Bustillo, who projected rooms there roomy and well enlightened, and conceived there a space route ordered for the least tiredness and of the minimum of displacement for the visitor. Emménagement in this seat began in September 1932, and the museum was inaugurated in May 1933, in the presence of the president Agustín Pedro Justo.

From this moment the building of the MNBA undergoes various modifications. In 1961, one built a house for the temporary exhibitions. In 1980 one inaugurated the largest room of the museum, with 1.536 m ², which currently lodges the collection of Argentinian Art of the XXe century. In 1984 one completed the work of the second stage, which comprised inter alia the two terraces of sculptures.

Current inheritance

Currently the museum counts 34 showrooms, 24 located at the lower level (2.000 m ²), 8 on the first floor (2.200 m ²) and 2 with the second (410 m ²). At the ground floor a library specialized in art is, with an inheritance of 150.000 volumes. On the first floor an auditorium of 320 m ² was built, where one carries out various artistic activities.

The inheritance of the museum reached in 2005 12.713 works, (which include/understand paintings, sculptures, tapestries, engravings, drawings and objects) whose one exposes at least 700 parts. Among the authors one finds works of Rembrandt, Rubens, Renoir, Cézanne, Morandi, El Greco, Rodin, Marc Chagall, Paul Gauguin inter alia universally recognized artists. One finds also works of painters and Argentinian sculptors like: Cándido López, Castagnino, Benito Quinquela Martín, Fernando Fader, Xul Solar, Thibon de Libian, Lucio Fontana, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Enrique Alonso, Raquel Forner, Prilidiano Pueyrredón etc

Branch of Neuquén

September 12th 2004 one inaugurated a head office of the MNBA in the town of Neuquén. The building was drawn by the architect Mario Álvarez, and has a surface of 2.500 m ². Not being a building recycled , but especially built to lodge the museum, it is equipped with a fort good functionality. The museum includes/understands four rooms, three for the permanent exposure of 215 works and the last for the temporary exhibitions, as well as an auditorium for 400 people used for various cultural activities.

External bond

Official site

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