The Museum of Fine Arts (
Spanish: ''Museo de Bellas Artes'' or MBA) is an art museum in
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
,
Venezuela. It was founded in 1917, and was originally housed in the building now known as the
Palacio de las Academias.
Its current buildings were both designed by architect
Carlos Raúl Villanueva
Carlos Raúl Villanueva Astoul (May 30, 1900 – August 16, 1975) was a Venezuelan modernist architect. Villanueva went for the first time to Venezuela when he was 28 years old. He was involved in the development and modernization of Caracas, ...
,
a 1930s
Neoclassical structure and a 1970s
Brutalist
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by Minimalism (art), minimalist constructions th ...
structure.
In the 1970s the Museum moved out of the neoclassical building to provide a home for the newly established
National Art Gallery
List of national galleries is a list of national art galleries.
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*Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
*National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
The Americas
*Galería Nacional, San Juan, Puerto ...
. It has reoccupied this space since the inauguration of a new building for the National Art Gallery in 2009.
Collections
The collections include ceramics and
ancient Egyptian art.
References
External links
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Art museums and galleries in Caracas
Art museums established in 1938
Art museums established in 1973
Art museums established in 1917