Lima Art Museum

Museum of art in Lima, Peru

Lima Art Museum

Museo de Arte de Lima

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Established| 1961
Location| Lima, Peru
Coordinates| 12°3′37.6045″S 77°2′13.0906″W﻿ / ﻿12.060445694°S 77.036969611°W﻿ / -12.060445694; -77.036969611
Type| Museum of art
Website| www.mali.pe

The Lima Art Museum (Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI) is an art museum in Lima, Peru. The museum is located in the Palacio de la Exposición. The museum was inaugurated in 1961. The collection includes ceramics, textiles, sculptures, and paintings surveying almost 3,000 years of history ranging from the pre-Columbian to Contemporary time periods.[1][2] MALI is a private organization supported by admission fees, contributions from members, and private donations.[3]

In 2015, the museum opened its renovated galleries on the second floor of the Exhibition Palace, showcasing some of the collection's most important items. The museum's contemporary art collection, numbering more than 1,000 works, is still largely kept in storage pending the development of a new wing.[2]

The museum has been involved in the development of new research on Peruvian art history, housing one of the most extensive art archives in the region. The MALI has an active program of temporary exhibitions throughout the year, covering local and international artists. Past exhibitions have included Gordon Matta Clark, Milagros de la Torre, Martin Creed, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tilmans, Martin Chambi, Annie and Josef Albers, Francis Alÿs, Fernando Bryce, Marcel Odenbach, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, among others.[4]

## Selected collection highlights

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* Teófilo Castillo

* Federico del Campo

## History

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The MALI is housed in the 1872 World's Fair Exhibition Palace, located in the Exposition Park, at the entrance of Lima's historic center. Antonio Leonardi, an Italian architect living in Lima at the time, designed the Italianate façade that wraps the building's structure–a cast-iron system designed by Gustave Eiffel’s atelier between 1870 and 1871. Leonardi, together with journalist Manuel Atanasio Fuentes, also designed the park, located on the former site of the Guadalupe Gate (one of ten gates along the city wall, torn down during the modernization campaigns of Jose Balta's presidency in 1868). Besides the Exhibition Palace, the park eventually came to house numerous structures, including the Moorish and Byzantine pavilions (built in 1921 to commemorate Peru's centennial of independence).[5]

Lima Art Museum in 2011.

## Manuel Solari Swayne Library

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Manuel Solari Swayne Library and the Peruvian Art Archive, part of the MALI's documentation area, constitute the main art library in Peru.[6]

## ARCHI. Digital Archive of Peruvian Art

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ARCHI is a platform dedicated to document and share a range of art expressions, material culture and architecture of Peru, in the most complete and representative way, contributing to its preservation and accessibility. ARCHI includes free educational resources to complement the teaching learning process in the classroom.[7]

## References

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1. ^ "Museo de Arte de Lima". Lonely Planet. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
2. ^ a b "Museo de Arte de Lima. The museum".
3. ^ "Museo de Arte de Lima. Brochure" (PDF).
4. ^ "Museo de Arte de Lima. Misión".
5. ^ Guía MALI. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima. 2015. pp. 7–8\. ISBN 978-9972-718-46-5.
6. ^ "Museo de Arte de Lima. Biblioteca y Archivo".
7. ^ "ARCHI. Archivo Digital de Arte Peruano".

## External links

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* Official website
* ARCHI
* Lima Art Museum within Google Arts & Culture
* Media related to Museo de Arte de Lima at Wikimedia Commons

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* Huaca Huallamarca
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* Huaca Santa Catalina
* Pachacamac
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* Luis Gálvez Chipoco Stadium
* Mesa Redonda
* Monumental Stadium
* Morro Solar War Monument
* Mosque of Lima
* National Geographic Institute
* National Library of Peru
* National Maternal Perinatal Institute
* National Stadium of Peru
* Palacio de la Exposición
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* Palacio Municipal
* Palace of Justice
* Petroperú Building
* Public Ministry of Peru
* Quinta Heeren
* Quinta Leuro
* Quinta Presa
* Rospigliosi Castle
* Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus Church
* Sheraton Lima Historic Center
* Sinagoga 1870
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* The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center
* Torre Banco de la Nación

Museums and theatres|

* Aeronautical Museum
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* Canout Theatre
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* Combatants of the Morro de Arica Museum
* DIRCOTE Museum
* Gold Museum of Peru and Arms of the World
* Gran Teatro Nacional
* José Carlos Mariátegui Museum
* Larco Museum
* Lima Art Museum
* Metropolitan Museum
* Morro Solar Planetarium
* Municipal Theatre Museum
* Museum of Congress and the Inquisition
* Museum of Contemporary Art
* Museum of the Brain
* Museum of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru
* Museum of Elections and Democracy
* Museum of Italian Art
* Museum of Natural History
* National Afro-Peruvian Museum
* National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History
* National Museum
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* Naval Museum
* Pinacotheca of Lima
* Teatro Colón
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* Teatro Peruano Japonés
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Squares and promenades|

* Cinco esquinas
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* Monument

Parks and zoos|

* Alameda Chabuca Granda
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* Museum
* Bridge of Sighs
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* Monument
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* El Olivar
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* Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge
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* Fountain
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* Paseo de Aguas
* Plazuela Chabuca Granda
* Monument
* Reducto № 2
* Museum
* University Park
* Clock

Education|

* Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University
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* National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts
* Cultural Centre
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* Campus
* University of Lima

Health|

* Archbishop Loayza National Hospital
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* Víctor Larco Herrera Hospital

Nearby areas with beaches|

* Ancón
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* Base
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* Chancay
* Port
* Chorrillos
* La Herradura
* Miraflores
* La Pampilla
* Pucusana

Former|

* Banco Comercial
* Barranco Lake
* Barranco Zoo
* Cabildo of Lima
* Casa Alcántara
* Casa Marcionelli
* Casa Oechsle
* Casa Tenaud
* Church of Our Lady of the Forsaken
* Church of Saint Mary of Charity
* Cine Tauro
* El Sexto Prison
* Gate of Lima
* Giacoletti Building
* Great Clock of Lima
* Hipódromo de San Felipe
* Hipódromo de Santa Beatriz
* Lima Penitentiary
* Limatambo Airport
* Limatambo Building
* Marsano Palace
* Moorish Arch
* Museo de la Nación
* National Stadium
* San Jorge Prison
* San Martín barracks
* Venetian Palace
* Saint Paul's College
* Viceregal Palace

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