EXHIBITIONS
Our exhibitions
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
The other faces of Nicaragua
Collection of Latin American Masks by Claudio Rama
February 27 – 12:30 p.m.
The exhibition presents some thirty masks from the Claudio Rama Collection, highlighting the country’s cultural diversity. From Monday to Saturday our temporary exhibition awaits you, which is part of a collection of objects from different regions of Latin America.
Claudio Rama’s collection already exceeds 900 pieces and is regularly presented at MAPI.
He bought the first piece of the collection in Mexico in the second half of the 1970s and since 2010, when Claudio Rama moved back to Montevideo, he focused on building the collection with a greater intensity in ethnographic research.
Thus it was that, little by little, the growth in the number of masks was forcing him to establish the logistical conditions and premises in accordance with this ever more forceful expansion until reaching the more than 900 pieces he has today and the signing of an agreement with the museum for their exhibition.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Mariano is Montevideo
Exhibition in tribute to Mariano Arana
June 13
As part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Montevideo and the 20th anniversary of MAPI, the exhibition “Mariano is Montevideo” is a tribute to the man who, from his position as Mayor of Montevideo, made possible the installation and permanence of the museum due to his concern for the rescue and protection of historic buildings in the city.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Archaeology of a soil: a selective look at some hydraulic floors
Exhibition of the artist José Gómez Rifas
June 7th
In this exhibition, the artist rescues tiles from the Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena (MAPI) and many other places, to explore their history and aesthetics from an archaeological perspective.
Gómez Rifas does not limit himself to MAPI tiles, but also incorporates pieces found at various historical and architectural sites.
This approach allows him to draw a cultural and temporal map of hydraulic floors, highlighting their evolution and the impact they have had in different contexts.
EXHIBITIONS
Past exhibitions
Archaeology of a soil: a selective look at some hydraulic floors
Mariano is Montevideo
Love
Drawings
Illarykuna
Tarshito. The path of the wanderer in love
Thomas Lowy: a free spirit
MAPI Takes to the Streets
Sacbé. White Road
Land of Angels
Food Room
MIMLA Room
Woods that speak Guarani
Memory of Fire
Mayan Prophecies What will happen in 2012?
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
MAPI’s collection
Permanent collections of the museum
MAPI’s holdings are made up of diverse collections containing a wide range of objects belonging to different socio-cultural systems, from different periods and from different geographic regions of the American continent.
EXHIBITIONS
Traveling exhibitions
The other Frontiers
Sacbé. White Road
Woods that speak Guarani
Memory of Fire
INVENTORY
MAPI Inventory
Inventory of pieces in the museum’s collection
DIGITAL EXHIBITION
Google Art Project
Exhibition of high quality pieces exhibited on the Google Art Project site.
Google Art Project is a Google initiative that allows users to explore art collections from museums around the world through an online platform.
The main idea is to offer virtual tours of museums and art galleries, allowing users to explore works of art in high resolution and obtain detailed information about each piece.