Puerto Rico Museum of Art

• Name — Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico • Native Name — Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico • Established — July 1, 2000 • Location — Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico • Website — mapr.org

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 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.

On 28 and 29 August 2026, the museum hosted a two-day program designed to train new Wikipedia editors and augment coverage of Puerto Rican history, art, and culture on the encyclopedia. The events were sponsored by WikimediaNYC and part of its Wikicurious series, which is a Wikipedia editing training series for beginners that is funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

The permanent collection of the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico is divided into 24 galleries located on the third and fourth levels of the museum building. • Illustration — Virgen de la Soledad de la Victoria, José Campeche (1782–89) • Illustration — The Daughters of Governor Ramón de Castro, José Campeche (1797) • Illustration — Vejigante mask (2019)