Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia, Art museum in Ciudad Satélite, El Alto, Bolivia
Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia is a three-level art museum organized into three main sections: graphics, painting, and archaeology. The institution is managed by El Alto's municipal government and presents a structured collection spanning different artistic periods.
The museum opened on 29 May 2002, the most ambitious project of Bolivian writer Antonio Paredes Candia, who gave his personal painting and sculpture collection and his library to El Alto. The founding collection held more than 300 artworks and 11,000 books; by 2011 it had grown to 503 works and 11,931 books.
The museum bears the name of writer Antonio Paredes Candia, whose personal painting and sculpture collection and library form its holdings. Its hemeroteca documents events from 1950 onward, including the 1952 Revolution and the tracking of Che's guerrilla. In 2013 the collective Public Delivery organized Luciano Calderon's solo show Ciudad Esperanza here.
The museum is divided into three levels, making it easy to move between exhibition halls and explore the different collections. Visitors should allow enough time to view all sections adequately.
The museum's hemeroteca, a newspaper and periodical archive, documents events from 1950 onward, including the 1952 Revolution and the tracking of Che Guevara's guerrilla. Alongside the art, this press collection is part of what writer Antonio Paredes Candia left to the institution.
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