Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Lucas Braulio Areco, museum in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Posadas occupies a building that has been part of the city since the early 1950s. It displays paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures created by regional artists as well as works from other parts of the country.
The museum opened in the early 1950s as part of the Palace of the Mate building, which became an important cultural center in the city. It was named after Lucas Braulio Areco to honor the artist's legacy and influence in the region.
The building opened in 1952 as the Palacio del Mate, conceived as a "bastion of popular culture". In its early years it hosted folkloric peñas, gatherings of musicians, writers and artists, folk dance and instrument demonstrations, and even a library. Today the Misiones branch of the Argentine Society of Writers, led by Aníbal Silvero and Esteban Abad, meets here.
The museum sits at the corner of Rivadavia and Bolívar streets, inside the Las Cuatro Avenidas area in the city centre, and opens onto the pedestrian Paseo Bosetti, which runs between Bolívar and Buenos Aires streets. Bus stops and taxi ranks stand at both ends of that walkway. The building is a provincial historic monument, and restoration of its murals began in 2010.
The building's first-floor mural by René Brusau depicts hacheros, the muscular workers who felled trees by hand, alongside Jesuit-era yerba mate growers and harvesters, child-minders, housewives, cooks and village scenes, with the Guaraní figure of El Pombero. Restoration of the murals began in 2010.
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