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Museo Torres García

Museo Torres García, Art museum in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Museo Torres García is an art museum in Montevideo's old city that spans seven floors and displays paintings, drawings, and furniture by Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García. The building contains a ground floor library, a basement theater, and multiple levels with educational workshops and temporary exhibitions.

After Joaquín Torres García died in 1949, his widow Manolita Piña led family and friends in creating a museum for his work and archive. It opened on 28 July 1955 at Avenida 18 de Julio 1903, in a building ceded by the Concejo Departamental. In 1967 it moved to the basement of the Ateneo de Montevideo and closed during the civic-military dictatorship. The Fundación Torres García was created in 1986, and since 1990 the museum has occupied a five-storey art déco building on Sarandí, the site of the former Casa Broqua & Scholberg bazaar.

The museum is named after Joaquín Torres García, the artist whose work shaped modern art in Uruguay. Visitors can see how his ideas and methods influenced the local art scene and continue to matter today.

The museum occupies a five-storey art déco building at Sarandí 683, on the pedestrian street in Ciudad Vieja. Exhibitions are arranged over the first three floors, with the ground floor holding a temporary library and the basement a theatre; upper floors are used for workshops. The entrance is on the pedestrian promenade, so it is reached on foot.

The collection includes unusual portraits of historical figures that Torres García combined with cubist elements to show South American influences. This blending of European and local artistic languages is rare to find in Uruguay.

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