Timoteo Navarro Museum of Art, Art museum in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
The Timoteo Navarro Museum of Art holds more than 680 works including paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, sculptures, illustrated poems, and photographs. The collection spans several exhibition spaces and displays a wide range of artistic media and styles.
The museum was founded in 1916 as part of the National University of Tucumán's Fine Arts School. It became an independent institution in 1922 and has grown into a major art center for the region.
The museum displays works by important Argentine artists like Antonio Berni and Benito Quinquela Martín. These pieces show how local and national creators explored their surroundings and society through different techniques.
The museum occupies the former branch of the Banco de la Provincia de Tucumán, a building declared a National Historic Monument, so the entrance and exhibition rooms sit inside a converted bank hall. The main hall covers 400 m² under a two-storey ceiling with a 144 m² glass and iron skylight on wrought-iron pillars. Allow time for the permanent collection of over 680 works.
The building was designed in 1905 by Belgian-Argentine architect Alberto Pelsmaekers for a branch of the Bank of the Province of Tucumán. That bank branch closed, and its designation as a National Historic Monument let the museum's collections move in; it reopened here on September 29, 2003.
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