Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria
The Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (also known as MAS) is an art museum in Santander, Spain. Today the museum specializes in modern and contemporary art.
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- 1908
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The Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (also known as MAS) is an art museum in Santander, Spain. Today the museum specializes in modern and contemporary art.
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Key facts
• Name — MAS – Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria • Location — C/ Rubio, 6 Santander, Spain 39001 • Website — www.museosantandermas.es
History
History
The first MAS museum was established in 1907. It opened on 6 February 1908. At that time it was called Biblioteca y Museo Municipales (Municipal Library and Museum). Its collection was shown in a room of the Santander city council building. In those early days the collection included paintings and sculptures and many other kinds objects. It had objects from archaeological sites and also objects related to natural history and ethnology. In 1923 the city built a new home for the library and museum. The building was designed by Leonardo Rucabado. Starting in 1941, the library moved out of the building. The museum took over the whole building and began to change its collections. It kept the paintings and sculptures but gave the archaeological, natural history, and ethnology objects to other museums in Santander and the Cantabria region. The museum re-opened on 3 November 1947 with a new name: Museo Municipal de Pinturas (Municipal Museum of Painting). In 1957 the museum changed its name again. It became the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santander (Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santander). Between 1978 and 1993 the museum's collection of works by younger artists and especially artists from Cantabria grew bigger. The inside of the museum was also repaired and updated. The museum has increasingly specialized in modern and contemporary art. In 2011 the museum changed its name to its current one of the Museum de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Santander and Cantabria).
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* • Cabezón, Pablo (2001). "Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santander". El Diario Montañés *
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Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria was established or created in 1908.
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• Illustration — Ferdinand VII by Goya The museum has 1,870 works of art—paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, and installations. About 100 of these works are by Spanish, Flemish, and Italian artists from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. All the rest are from the last part of the 19th century to the 21st century. Most of the museum's works are by Spanish artists. It has about 150 works by foreign artists. One of these is La muerte del toro (The Death of the Bull) by the Italian contemporary artist, Umberto Pettinicchio y the Vollard suite of etchings by Pablo Picasso. The most famous work in the museum is a portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain by Francisco Goya.
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The circumstances in which Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria stands. Recorded at coordinates 43.4624, -3.8125. Established or created in 1908. Held in Umberto Pettinicchio. Held in Francisco Goya. Cantabria lies within Santander. Situated in Spain.
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- “Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1069656054, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.
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- 1.DECRETO 474/1962, de 1 de marzo, por el que determinados Museos son declarados monumentos histórico-artísticos.
- 2.Ley 16/1985, de 25 de junio, del Patrimonio Histórico Español. Disposición adicional primera.
- 3.Museo Municipal de Pinturas (Santander).
- 4.Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Umberto Pettinicchio
- 5.Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. N° Registro: 0616
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1069656054, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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