Museo Nacional de la Estampa
The Museo de la Estampa (Museum of Graphic Arts) is a museum in
The building houses both a permanent and multiple temporary exhibits. The permanent collection includes pre-Hispanic clay seals used for printing designs on fabrics, ceramics and other surfaces, printed material from the colonial period and more recent creations. More recent works are divided into periods such as the “age of the
The museum works in collaboration with Museo Nacional de Arte, which holds Mexico’s largest collection of graphic arts including those done by Mexican artists José Guadalupe Posada, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as foreign artists such as Mario Benedetti and Ilya Kabakov.[1] This collection is called the National Collection of Graphic Works (Colección Nacional de Estampas).[3]
Much of the museum’s space is dedicated to temporary exhibits such as the 2003 exhibit of works from the Centro de Formación y Producción Gráfica del Antiguo Colegio Jesuita located in
The museum also supports activities related to research, but most of the space is designed to accommodate the highest number of visitors possible.[2]
19°26′13.35″N 99°8′33.24″W / 19.4370417°N 99.1425667°W
References
- ^ a b c "Presentación" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
- ^ a b c "Museo Nacional de la Estampa (D.F.)" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Mexico Desconocido magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
- ^ CONACULTA. ") El Museo Nacional de la Estampa resguarda el acervo más amplio de estampa en México" [The Museo Nacional de la Estampa exhibits the largest collection of graphic arts in Mexico] (in Spanish). Mexico City: Artes e Historia. Archived from the originalon July 19, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
- ^ "Museo Nacional de la Estampa" (in Spanish). Mexico: Artes Visuales. Archived from the original on January 11, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
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