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Museo de Arte de El Salvador

Museo de Arte de El Salvador, Art museum in Colonia San Benito, San Salvador, El Salvador.

The Museo de Arte de El Salvador is an art museum with multiple exhibition halls that present Salvadoran and international artworks. The spaces allow visitors to explore both permanent collections and rotating displays.

The Museo de Arte de El Salvador opened on 22 May 2003 in a building by Salvadoran architect Salvador Choussy Rusconi, on a 6,520 m² plot in the city centre. In 2007 it was enlarged with the Ernesto Álvarez Córdova multipurpose hall and a further exhibition room. Its design integrates the museum with the Monumento a la Revolución, whose stone mosaic was inaugurated on 14 December 1955 by President Óscar Osorio.

The museum showcases Salvadoran artists and their work across different periods, allowing visitors to follow the development of local artistic movements. Here you can see how artistic styles and themes have evolved throughout the country's history.

The museum stands on a 6,520 m² plot in central San Salvador, next to the Monumento a la Revolución, whose stone mosaic and sculpture can be seen from the grounds. The 2007 extension added the Salón Ernesto Álvarez Córdova and a further exhibition room. Five halls hold the displays: Gran Sala (372 m²), Sala 1 (192 m²), Sala 2 (152 m²), Sala 3 (152 m²) and Sala 4 (184 m²), plus 156 m² of alternative spaces.

The museum building is integrated with the Monumento a la Revolución, a 1950s complex whose stone mosaic "El Chulón" was inaugurated on 14 December 1955 by President Óscar Osorio. The mosaic's stones were collected across El Salvador, and the work was designed by Mexican artist Claudio Cevallos with Salvadoran artist Violeta Bonilla. The site also holds Francisco Zúñiga's 1956 sculpture Allegory to the 1950 Constitution.

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