Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Contemporary art museum in Cerrillos, Chile.
The Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos occupies the remodeled modernist building that served as the main terminal of Los Cerrillos Airport, inaugurated in 1934 and designed by architects Juan Mena and Adolfo Ruiz. Its facade carries the mural Cóndores, made by Samuel Román and his son Héctor during the 1957 remodeling. Inside, laboratories, a viewing room, a library and climate-controlled storage hold Chilean art made from 1967 onward.
The airport opened in 1929 with funding from American philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim, and its main terminal, designed by architects Juan Mena and Adolfo Ruiz, was inaugurated in 1934. In 1957 architect Iris Valenzuela led a first renovation, for which sculptors Samuel Román and his son Héctor made the mural Cóndores on the facade. Cerrillos ceased to be Chile's main airport in 1967 but continued as an aerodrome until 2005; in 2016 the building was transferred to the culture council and opened as the CNACC on 22 September 2016.
The museum displays works by Chilean artists and connects them with broader Latin American artistic movements. Visitors encounter contemporary forms of expression throughout the exhibition spaces.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday with no admission fee required. The Cerrillos metro station on Line 6 is located nearby and provides convenient access.
The main terminal was inaugurated in 1934, three years after the airport itself opened in 1929 with a half-million-dollar donation from the American philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim to develop Chilean civil aviation. The sculptors Samuel Román and his son Héctor made the mural Cóndores on the facade in 1957, and it was restored before the art centre opened in 2016.
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