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Museo de Arte de Ponce
Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP), is an art museum located on Las Americas Avenue (PR-163) in Ponce, Puerto Rico.〔(The Puerto Rico Channel. ''Discover Ponce's NeoClassical Buildings and Museums.'' ) Retrieved June 21, 2009.〕〔Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Ven al Sur, page 20. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003.〕〔Que Pasa!, Oct–Nov 2004, page 80. The Puerto Rican Tourism Company, San Juan, Puerto Rico〕〔(TravelPonce.com ''Top Five Ponce Attractions.'' )〕 It is considered one of the finest art museums in Puerto Rico.〔(Offbeat Travel. ''Pleasures of Ponce, Puerto Rico.'' )〕 It houses a collection of European art,〔 as well as work by Puerto Rican artists. The largest art museum in the Caribbean,〔(Business Line: Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications. ''A Rich Port, Literally!'' April 15, 2002. )〕 it has also been called one of the best in the Americas.〔Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce en sus Dimensiones, page 2. Jorge Ariel Torres, editor, page 13.〕 The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere,〔(Welcome to Puerto Rico. ''Ponce.'' ) Retrieved June 10, 2009.〕 holding some 4,500 pieces of art〔〔(MAP 2007 Annual Report ) Retrieved June 10, 2009.〕 distributed among fourteen galleries.〔(Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Tourism Company. ''Puerto Rico FLy and Drive map.'' )〕 It was the first of three 〔The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico was listed as accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in the August 2013 report. The other two accredited museums are the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico () and the Museo de Arte y Antropología de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.〕 museums in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.〔 It was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Luis A. Ferré, and its current building was officially inaugurated on December 28, 1965. It was significantly enlarged in 2010 after a $30M expansion. The museum has been called "world class".〔(''Long Range Multimodal Transportation Plan: 2032 Puerto Rico Five Transportation Planning Regions. Long Range Transportation Plan.'' ) Strategic Planning Office. Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority. Department of Transportation and Public Works. May 2012. Vol 2. Chapter 4. p.165.〕
==History==
The project of the museum began in 1956 when Luis A. Ferré traveled to Europe and acquired various European art pieces, including many pre-Raphealite works, which encouraged him to start a project for a museum in the city of Ponce, his birthplace. With the advice of two experts – Julius S. Held, specialist on Rubens and professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, and René Taylor, art and architecture enthusiast and professor at the University of Granada, Yale, and Columbia – Ferré compiled a collection of works of art based on their value instead of their popularity.〔(Celia Quartermain. ''King Arthur Comes Home: How a key Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painting by Edward Burne-Jones Ended up on a Caribbean Island.'' NewStatesman. April 14, 2008. ) Retrieved November 27, 2009.〕 Ferré would state in a Forbes interview that "the scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them."
On January 3, 1959, Ferré opened the museum in a small wooden house at Cristina Street in Ponce originally with 72 works of art,〔 at what is today the Centro Cultural de Ponce (Ponce Cultural Center). Some of these original paintings are still on display in the current museum. As time passed and the museum gained popularity, more pieces of art were either donated to and acquired by the Museum. In 1962, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated 15 paintings to the museum.〔 By 1989, the museum's collection had grown to 500 pieces, with a then estimated value of $50 million,〔 equivalent to $ in present day terms.
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