page_title: Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Español: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal, Santiago de Chile
context_page_description: The Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art is located in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the city's major museums, created in 1947, and is run by the University of Chile Faculty of Arts. Since 2005, the museum has had two separate sites: MAC Parque Forestal and MAC Quinta Normal Park.
  The museum specializes in modern and contemporary art and focuses on the development, study, and dissemination of modern art through exhibitions and other activities. It also concentrates on protecting the cultural heritage that forms its collection, which is made up by over 2,000 pieces and files.
  One of the museum's sites is located in Parque Forestal behind the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts and sharing its grand Palacio de Bellas Artes building. The other site is located in Quinta Normal Park.
context_section_description: Quinta Normal Park site
  The ‘’Partenón’’ in Quinta Normal Park was the location of the first fine arts museum in Chile and one of the first in the Americas. Inaugurated in 1885, it originally displayed the works of a group of Chilean painters headed up by Pedro Lira. In 1910, as part of the celebrations for Chile’s first centenary, the current Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts was inaugurated in Parque Forestal and took on the functions of the old Quinta Normal Park building. The old building was abandoned until 1915, and on various occasions was used as school, gymnasium and storage place.
  In 1945, the painter Marco Aurelio Bontá Costa recovered the building for the arts and in 1946 opened the Museum of Contemporary Art. Bontá Costa selected the pieces on display to give an overview of Chilean art of the 20th century.
  The museum moved in 1974 to a new location in the western part of Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts building in Parque Forestal. In 1985, an earthquake damaged the old Quinta Normal building and from 1998 it has been some efforts in order to repair him.
  Parque Forestal building
  This building is a typical example of Neoclassical/art nouveau architecture, designed by the Chilean architect Emile Jéquier. It was built in the 19th century for the centenary of Chile's independence, which was celebrated in 1910. The building's western front (the home of the MAC) was damaged in the 2010 Chile earthquake.
caption: ”Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago”. On the front can be read the sign:  “Academia de Bellas Artes” (Academy of Fine Arts), which was the building's use before the museum moved here.
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