| The most important collection of Cuba Art of all time rubs elbows with genune treasures of the universal plastic arts housed in a couple of buildings in Havana, two outstanding architecture gems that harbor the national museum of fine arts
Dr. Zahi Hawass, an eminent Egyptologist and on of the greatest men on the face of the earth fully devoted to the realm of museology and collecting, paid a visit to Havana. the nations´s capital histortian Dr. Eusebio Leal said tha when Mr. Hawass visited the National Museum of Fine Arts and saw the ancient collection, he expressed: "the man who did this knows a lot about museums." The Egyptian collector, Mr Leal went on to say, was far more astounded because, as he put it, " he hasn´t been able to do someting like this in Cairo"
this letter of introduction is good enough to come closer to a flagship insitution of Cuba Culture: The National Museum of Fine Arts with 95 years of age under its belt - it was founded in 1913.
With a treasure that surpasses 47.000 pieces, including paintings , sculptures, drawing, engraving, archeological installations and artifacts, this State - run insitution was reopened back in 2001 following a costly all-out remodeling process taht rejuvenated the two main exhibition buldings: The Palace of Fine Arts and the former Asturian Center of Havana that´s been part of the museum since then.
The hundreds of thousands of visitors who have since then walked past its turnstiles find in both buldings now equipped with high-tech lighting and security, better air -conditioning and indoor climate control - a genuine oasis of shapes and colors that start with the bulding´s architecture, two magnificent example of one of latin American´s most remarkable urban compounds.
The Palace of Fine Arts - opened in 1954 - was specially bults as a museum based on a progressive design in whic modernity ans the purest traditional colonial architecture melt into one another. this Place is home to the Cuban Collection.
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