Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Art museum in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
The Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto "Pedro Manuel-Gismondi" occupies the former Sociedade Recreativa building, opened in 1908, which also housed the city council. Its collection focuses on regional production and includes works by modern and contemporary Brazilian artists. The museum also runs a second exhibition space at the Ribeirão Preto Convention Centre.
The museum opened on 22 December 1992, at the end of mayor Welson Gasparini's administration, to gather the city's art holdings, including works acquired through the Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and the Salão Brasileiro de Belas Artes. In 2000 it was renamed after the Italo-Brazilian painter Pedro Manuel-Gismondi, who had died the year before. In 2002 his family donated 252 engravings to the museum.
The museum's name honours Pedro Manuel-Gismondi, an Italian-Brazilian painter, writer, art critic and teacher who died in 1999 and held his first solo show in Ribeirão Preto, at Galeria 4 Artes. It also organises the city's three art salons, among them the Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (SARP), whose acquisition prizes have brought works by León Ferrari and Rosângela Rennó into the collection.
The museum occupies the former Sociedade Recreativa building, opened in 1908, which also housed Ribeirão Preto's city council. A second exhibition space operates at the Ribeirão Preto Convention Centre. The building stands in the city centre, near the coordinates -21.17518, -47.80617.
In 2002, for its tenth anniversary, the museum received a donation of 252 prints by Pedro Manuel-Gismondi from his family, during the Lasar Segall exhibition held with the Museu Lasar Segall. The museum had taken his name in 2000, after the Italo-Brazilian painter, writer and critic died the previous year.
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