The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (
Spanish: ''Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico'', abbreviated MAPR
) is an art museum in
Santurce, a
barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish word that means " quarter" or " neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, a ...
of
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under th ...
, with 18 exhibition halls.
The museum is located in a historic building, formerly occupied by the San Juan Municipal Hospital.
History
The museum building, designed by architect William H. Shimmelphening and built in 1920, is the remaining building in the former ruined complex of the San Juan Municipal Hospital. The building served as a hospital until 1966 when most of its body was moved to the newly inaugurated ''Centro Médico de Río Piedras'' (Río Piedras Medical Center). Afterwards it served as office space for the
Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works
The Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP; es, Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas)— is the Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that regulates transportation and public works in Puerto Ri ...
until 1975.
The idea behind the Puerto Rico Museum of Art dates to 1995, when the
Puerto Rico Tourism Company (Spanish: ''Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico'') with funding by the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (''Banco Gubernamental de Fomento'', BGF). Instead of demolishing the building, the old structure was incorporated into the new museum building.
Gallery
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.jpg
Puerto Rico Art Museum.jpg
See also
*
Graphopoli
References
External links
Museum of Art of Puerto Ricowithin
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.
It utilizes high-resolution image technol ...
*
Art museums and galleries in Puerto Rico
Museums in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...
Museum of Art of Puerto Rico
{{PuertoRico-struct-stub