National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) is the name of a museum, Julio Herrera y Reissig esq. Tomás Giribaldi, s/n, In Parque Rodó

Parque Rodó

Parque Rodó is both a barrio of Montevideo, Uruguay and a park which lies mostly outside the limits of the barrio itself and belongs to Punta Carretas...

, Montevideo

Montevideo

Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

, Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

. It was inaugurated on December 10 of 1911.

This museum has the largest collection of Uruguayan artists artwork. Among them are works of Rafael Barradas, Joaquín Torres García

Joaquín Torres García

Joaquín Torres García , was a Uruguayan plastic artist and art theorist, also known as the founder of Constructive Universalism...

, José Cúneo, Carlos Federico Sáez, Pedro Figari

Pedro Figari

Pedro Figari was a Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer, and politician. Although he did not begin the practice until his later years, he is best known as an early modernist painter who emphasized capturing the every-day aspects of life in his work...

, Juan Manuel Blanes

Juan Manuel Blanes

Juan Manuel Blanes was a noted Uruguayan painter of the Realist school.-Life and work:Blanes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1830. He was raised by his mother, with whom he relocated to the countryside in his early teens...

 and the artist Pablo Serrano who lived in Montevideo for twenty years.

The museum hosts also temporary exhibitions, in many cases of foreign artists, whose artwork travels in different museums around the world.

Exhibitions

• 1, ground floor. surface: 152 m²
• 2, ground floor. Area: 1015 m²
• 3, first floor. Surface: 110 m²
• 4, first floor. Surface: 634 m²
• 5, room, upstairs. Surface: 570 m²
• Conference Room, ground floor, with a capacity of 174 seats. Primarily designed for video conferences.
• Library,upstairs. Monday to Friday from 11 to 17 hours, focused on art, with more than 8,000 volumes.
• Garden,designed by landscape architect Leandro Silva Delgado Uruguay.

Directors

Name Director	Time
Domingo Laporte	(1911–1928)
Ernesto Laroche	(1928–1940)
José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín was a Uruguayan sculptor.One of the pivotal sculptors from Uruguay, he have significant impact in the monuments of the capital city of Montevideo...	(1940–1961)
Muñoz del Campo	(1961–1969)
Ángel Kalenberg	(1969–2007)
Jacqueline Lacasa	(2007–2009)
Mario Sagradini	(2009-now)

See also