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Austin

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Contemporary Latin-American Art

An academic unit of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin - formerly Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery. Exhibition center for 20th Century Latin American art, permanent collection of more than 1,600 works. [en]

Denver

Museo de las Américas

Artistic and cultural achievements of Latinos in the Americas, from the ancient cultures until the present. Permanent collection and changing exhibitions. Address: 861 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado. [en, es]

Long Beach

Museum of Latin American Art

Opened in November of 1996, financed by the Robert Gumbiner Foundation, whose collection of Latin American art it houses. Galleries for temporary exhibitions, library, rooms for events. [en]

Long Beach

The Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)

Robert Gumbiner Foundation, opened in1996. Permanent collection and temporary exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America. Address: 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, California. [en]

New Orleans

New Orleans Museum of Art: Latin America

Precolumbian and Spanish Colonial art from Latin America. Address: One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA. [en]

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Africa, Oceania, the Americas

Ritual objects and monuments, articles of personal adornment, and utensils for daily life from three continents and dozens of Pacific islands, 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Address: 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, USA. [en]

New York

El Museo del Barrio

Collection: art from Latin America and the Caribbean, from pre-Columbian times up to the present; temporary exhibitions; educational programs. Address: Heckscher Building, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York 10029. [en]

San Antonio

Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art

Latin American collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art: pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Republican periods; folk art, modern and contemporary art. A national center for the study of Latin American culture. Address: 200 West Jones Avenue, San Antonio, Texas. [en]

San Juan

Museo de las Américas

Permanent collections: Folk Art from the Americas, the African Heritage. Exhibitions: History and Culture of the Americas from pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Address: Antiguo Cuartel de Ballajá, Viejo San Juan. [es]

Tempe

Arizona State University Art Museum

A division of The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts. Collection and exhibitions of art from Latin America and from Latinos/Chicanos in the USA. Address: Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. [en]

Washington D.C.

Art Museum of the Americas

Run by the Organization of American States (OAS), a museum for modern Latin American and Caribbean art, founded in 1976. Has its own collection as well as traveling exhibitions, educational programs, reserach. Address: 201 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC. [en]

 

 

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