Back متحف بونس للفنون Arabic Museu d'Art de Ponce Catalan Museo de Arte de Ponce Spanish Musée d'Art de Ponce French Պոնսեի արվեստի թանգարան HY ポンセ美術館 Japanese Museo de Arte de Ponce Polish Museu de Arte de Ponce Portuguese 龐塞藝術博物館 Chinese
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| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | 2325 Avenida Las Américas, Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates | 18°0′14″N 66°37′1″W / 18.00389°N 66.61694°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
| Key holdings | -Flaming June -The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon |
| Collections | Baroque Pre-Raphaelite Golden Age Latin American art Puerto Rican art |
| Collection size | 4,500 pieces (2010)[3] |
| Visitors | 90,000 (2010)[2] |
| Director | Deborah L. Roldán |
| President | María Luisa Ferré Rangel[1] |
| Curator | Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón |
| Architect | Edward Durell Stone |
| Owner | Private: Fundación Luis A. Ferré, Inc. |
| Public transit access | SITRAS, "Linea Anaranjada" (Orange Line): Buses E, F, G (Museo stop) |
| Website | www |
Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) is an art museum located on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico.[4][5][6][7] It houses a collection of European art,[5] as well as works by Puerto Rican artists. The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere,[8] holding some 4,500 pieces of art[3][9] distributed among fourteen galleries.[10]
Museo de Arte de Ponce is the finest art museum in Puerto Rico.[11] The largest art museum in the Caribbean,[12] it has also been called one of the best in the Americas.[13][14][15] It was the first museum in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.[9][16]
It was founded in 1959 by industrialist and philanthropist Luis A. Ferré at a location in the Ponce Historic Zone. The museum moved to its current building location on Avenida Las Américas in 1965. In 2010, the museum increased its size significantly after a $30M expansion.
- ^ Museo de Arte de Ponce announces exhibition of masterpieces from the Prado Museum. Art Daily. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
- ^ Museo de Arte de Ponce, Re-Apertura Grandiosa!! 17 October 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ^ a b Archived at Wayback Machine on 15 July 2011 from its original at A punto de caramelo el Museo de Arte. Lissette González. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ The Puerto Rico Channel. Discover Ponce's NeoClassical Buildings and Museums. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Ven al Sur, page 20. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003.
- ^ Que Pasa!, Oct–Nov 2004, page 80. The Puerto Rican Tourism Company, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- ^ "Top Five Ponce Attractions". www.travelponce.com. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ Welcome to Puerto Rico. Ponce. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
- ^ a b MAP 2007 Annual Report Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 10 June 2009.
- ^ Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Puerto Rico FLy and Drive map.
- ^ "Offbeat Travel". www.offbeattravel.us. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ "Business Line: Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications. A Rich Port, Literally! 15 April 2002". Archived from the original on 9 August 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
- ^ Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce en sus Dimensiones, page 2. Jorge Ariel Torres, editor, page 13.
- ^ Martinez, Marialba (30 October 2003). "Puerto Rico Grieves Over The Loss Of Its Premier Statesman Four Months Short Of His 100th Birthday". Puerto Rico Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ Glass, Robert (8 October 1989). "Puerto Rican's 50-Year Goal: Statehood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ "List of Accredited Museums: August 2013". The Museum Accreditation Program. American Alliance of Museums. Retrieved 23 February 2014.