Museo de Arte de Ponce

Museo de Arte de Ponce

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Established	1959
Location	2325 Avenida Las Américas, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Coordinates	18°0′14″N 66°37′1″W / 18.00389°N 66.61694°W / 18.00389; -66.61694
Type	Art museum
Accreditation	American Alliance of Museums
Key holdings	-Flaming June -The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Collections	Baroque Pre-Raphaelite Golden Age Latin American art Puerto Rican art
Collection size	4,500 pieces (2010)[5]
Visitors	90,000 (2010)[4]
Director	Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez
President	María Luisa Ferré Rangel[1]
Curator	Pablo Pérez d’Ors (Incumbent),[2] Cheryl Hartup (2005-2012)[3]
Architect	Edward Durell Stone
Owner	Private: Fundación Luis A. Ferré, Inc.
Public transit access	SITRAS, "Linea Anaranjada" (Orange Line): Buses E, F, G (Museo stop)
Website	www.museoarteponce.org

Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) is an art museum located on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico.^[6][7][8][9] It houses a collection of European art,^[7] as well as works by Puerto Rican artists. The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere,^[10] holding some 4,500 pieces of art^[5][11] distributed among fourteen galleries.^[12]

Museo de Arte de Ponce is the finest art museum in Puerto Rico.^[13] The largest art museum in the Caribbean,^[14] it has also been called one of the best in the Americas.^[15][16][17] It was the first museum in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.^[11][18]

It was founded in 1959 by industrialist and philanthropist Luis A. Ferré at a location in the Ponce Historic Zone. The museum moved to its current building location on Avenida Las Américas in 1965. In 2010, the museum increased its size significantly after a $30M expansion.