EXHIBITIONS
Our exhibitions
EXPOSICIÓN TEMPORAL
NINGYŌ
Arte y belleza de las muñecas japonesas
06 agosto — 07 septiembre
Una exposición itinerante de la Fundación Japón que propone un recorrido por la extensa y diversa cultura de las muñecas en Japón. A través de 67 piezas cuidadosamente seleccionadas, la exposición permite conocer la evolución de estas figuras desde sus antiguos orígenes rituales hasta sus expresiones artísticas, populares y contemporáneas.
EXHIBITIONS
Current exhibitions
Micromundo
Micromundo brings together paintings by Franco Centurión in which architectures, organic forms, small characters and objects build suspended scenes. An...
NINGYŌ: Art and Beauty of Japanese Dolls
MAPI presents “NINGYŌ: Art and Beauty of Japanese Dolls”, a traveling exhibition of the Japan Foundation that offers a journey...
Carnival Masks
MAPI presents its new Permanent Carnival Masks Gallery, a space dedicated to the richness and diversity of this celebration across...
Claudio Rama Collection of Latin American Masks
The MAPI building houses one of the most emblematic collections in the region: the Claudio Rama Collection of Latin American...
MAPI 3D in the Metaverse: an innovative and disruptive experience
MAPI enters the Metaverse with an innovative proposal that eliminates geographical barriers and expands its reach globally. Using the Spatial.io...
The Other Faces of Nicaragua
The territory of present-day Nicaragua had several languages (Nahuatl, Chorotega, Nahoa) and various types of population and religious beliefs until...
The Other Frontiers
It was La Abadía Centro de Arte y Estudios Latinoamericanos, in the city of Buenos Aires, that hosted the exhibition...
Blackfoot “Bison Time”
This permanent exhibition tells the story of the Blackfoot — or, in Spanish, pies negros — a group of peoples...
Research on Musical Instruments of Ecuador
This gallery presents the research of the Argentine archaeomusicologist Mónica Gudemos, who collaborated with MAPI from 2016 to 2021 on...
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
Claudio Rama Collection of Latin American Masks
Permanent gallery
The MAPI building houses one of the most emblematic collections in the region: the Claudio Rama Collection of Latin American Masks. This permanent gallery, covering more than 150 square meters, offers a unique journey through the cultural diversity and richness of Latin America through 300 masks and traditional costumes.
EXHIBITIONS
Past exhibitions
Emberá, a Journey to the Ancestral Heart of Panama
The Emberá community lives on the banks of the Chagres River, a community that can only be reached by cayucos...
The Other Faces of Paucartambo
The exhibition brings together Claudio Rama’s mask collection and photographs by Pilar Pedraza in a visual journey through the festival...
Jeike into the Native Forest
Jeike into the Native Forest, by the Uruguayan visual artist Carmela Piñón, proposes a pictorial immersion in Uruguay’s native forest....
Arts and Letters of Peru in Caricatures
The exhibition Arts and Letters of Peru in Caricatures, by the Uruguayan journalist, writer and caricaturist Jaime Clara, proposes a...
Textilarte
An exhibition presented by the Embassy of Guatemala in Uruguay that invites visitors to discover the symbolic, aesthetic and spiritual...
Nativity, Gazes Through Time
A proposal that brings together more than 1,100 polychrome clay figures created by the Mexican artisan Felipe Nieva, capable of...
Jewelry for Architecture. Networks of Light and Movement in the Air
The installation appears as a suspended torrent descending the central staircase of the museum, transforming the solidity of marble into...
Architecture of the Invisible
Architecture of the Invisible presents the evolution of artist Astrid Barfod toward a deeply abstract language, built from mixed media...
Aché: Silhouettes of Yoruba Spirituality
MAPI presents the exhibition Aché: Silhouettes of Yoruba Spirituality, a show that invites visitors to delve into the symbolic and...
Celeste Impressions
Horacio J. Spinetto (Buenos Aires, 1950) is a prominent figure in the cultural universe of the Río de la Plata....
Christs & Crystals
MAPI presents “Christs & Crystals,” the first solo exhibition by photographer Víctor Cunha, a series of images taken in La...
SHIPIBO-KONIBO. Portraits of My Blood
MAPI, in collaboration with the Embassy of Peru in Uruguay, presents the exhibition “SHIPIBO-KONIBO. Portraits of My Blood” by photographer...
Dialogues
“Dialogues” brings together a selection of works by contemporary artists Nino Fernández, Marcelo Larrosa, Federico Méndez, and Gustavo Serra, who...
Giant Kites of Guatemala
MAPI presents the photography exhibition “Giant Kites of Guatemala,” by Australian photographer Alana Mc Connom, produced during her residency in...
Archaeology of a floor: a selective look at some hydraulic tile floors
At MAPI Café we present the exhibition “Archaeology of a floor: a selective look at some hydraulic tile floors” by...
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
The MAPI Collection
The museum’s permanent collections
The MAPI collection is made up of various collections that contain a wide range of objects belonging to diverse sociocultural systems, from different periods and from different geographic regions of the American continent.
EXHIBITIONS
Traveling exhibitions
Sacbé. White Road
Javier Hinojosa’s photographs are the result of a series of trips along the Maya route made over several years, following...
Woods that speak Guarani
The exhibition “Woods that speak Guarani” aims to share knowledge about the fact that the current national territory belongs to...
Memory of Fire
The work traces the history of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America from a mythical past to the 1980s, combining...
INVENTORY
MAPI Inventory
Inventory of pieces in the museum’s collection
EXPOSICIÓN DIGITAL
Google Arts & Culture
Exposición de piezas en alta calidad exhibidas en el sitio de Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture es una iniciativa de Google que permite a los usuarios explorar colecciones de arte de museos de todo el mundo a través de una plataforma en línea. La idea principal es ofrecer visitas virtuales a museos y galerías de arte, permitiendo a los usuarios explorar obras de arte en alta resolución y obtener información detallada sobre cada pieza.