Museo Bellapart, Private art museum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Museo Bellapart occupies the fifth floor of a building at the corner of Av. John F. Kennedy, above a Honda dealership, in a space designed by Dominican architect Leopoldo Franco. Its more than 2,000 paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings are arranged chronologically, from the late 19th century to the 1960s.
The institution was founded in 1999 by Catalan businessman Juan José Bellapart as the first private art museum of its kind in the Dominican Republic. The collection was built from artworks the Bellapart family had been gathering since the 1960s.
The museum's name comes from Juan José Bellapart, the Catalan businessman who assembled the collection from the 1960s onward. Works are hung chronologically, so a visitor walks from late-19th-century oils to 1960s pieces. Temporary exhibitions have highlighted artists who fled the Franco dictatorship and those exiled in the Dominican Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
The museum occupies the fifth floor of a building at the corner of Avenida John F. Kennedy, above a Honda dealership, so look up rather than for a street-level entrance. Admission is free. Educational courses in museology and art workshops for children are offered; no guided tours or public art library are documented.
The museum sits on the fifth floor above a Honda car dealership at the corner of Av. John F. Kennedy, and it holds the most complete collection of works by Jaime Colson. Temporary exhibitions have highlighted artists who escaped the Franco dictatorship and those exiled in the Dominican Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
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