MAPI offers an exhibition open to the public 24 hours a day featuring Claudio Rama’s Latin American Mask Collection

MAPI Faces the Street is a weekly exhibition of Claudio Rama’s Latin American Mask collection, displayed in the windows of MAPI Café, which can be visited 24 hours a day from 25 de Mayo Street, between Colón and Pérez Castellano.

The first exhibition is dedicated to the Diablo Cojuelo, the central character of the La Vega Carnival held in the Dominican Republic, whose origins date back to colonial times, while a second display case presents masks from the Barranquilla Carnival, a traditional festival of the Colombian Caribbean.

These displays will be renewed weekly while the museum’s headquarters remains closed as a result of the health emergency, and their purpose is to present the more than 700 pieces that make up Claudio Rama’s mask collection to those who walk along 25 de Mayo Street every day or come especially to visit the exhibition.

MAPI offers numerous proposals in the virtual world, which can be accessed at https://mapi.uy/virtual. However, at this stage it is resuming one of a museum’s main activities: exhibiting its collections in person.

Displaying the pieces facing the street, 24 hours a day, makes it possible to appreciate them directly without posing a health risk, given that they are viewed from the public space and in the open air.

We urge visitors, in case another person is viewing the exhibition, to keep a minimum distance of two meters and to wear a face mask at all times.

We would especially like to invite everyone heading to the vaccination center at the Maciel Hospital, before or after getting vaccinated, to stop by MAPI’s door to visit the exhibition.

MAPI Faces the Street, curated by Sonia Fontans, will be open to the public, in its first edition, from March 29 to April 5.

We would be grateful if those who take photographs and post them on social media do so with the hashtag #elmapidaalacalle and tag @mapimuseo

We look forward to seeing you!

Place: MAPI – 25 de Mayo 279, corner of Colón
Room: MAPI Café windows
Date: March 29 to April 5, 2021