The National Museum of Fine Arts has reopened its doors again in this stage that the country and the city face, with new proposals for the public lover of the visual arts.

According to Oscar Antuña, technical director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, ¨we have reopened the permanent galleries that are available to the public once again, with the particularity that there is a new assembly in the galleries of the Art of the Colony and in the Cambio de Siglo rooms.

There is a new presentation from the museographic point of view and also with some changes from the point of view of museology, works that have been incorporated and a different way of organizing the exhibitions, emphasizing the historical aspect beyond the traditional approach that these permanent exhibitions have had, he said.

In the temporary exhibitions, the MNBA inaugurated still in times of closure due to the pandemic, the tribute exhibition to the National Visual Arts Award, Lesbia Vent Dumois(Cienfuegos, 1932)that had been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. It was inaugurated on October 30th and as fortunately the city has opened people can attend to Memoria with more freedom, said Antuña.

In regard with the words of Virginia Alberdi in the catalog: ¨Lesbia makes memory and bows to it. This exhibition registers stages, but at the same time, it also ties the threads of a coherent and patient construction, obstinate and fortunate, of images that are felt, though and lived. Not every artist can afford to be accountable in this way. Not every artist rejuvenates himself in every challenge and faces as if it were life itself¨.

Likewise, the exhibition No place like home, by the artist Alexis Leyva Kcho, inaugurated on December 2nd, 2020 that had practically no opportunity to be visited, is still on display.

It is an exhibition of an artist of international stature that makes a retrospective tour of his work and whose work had a meteoric impact from a young age, reaching international levels and very important successes and now the public can appreciate it in the galleries and the courtyard of the museum, said the technical director of the MNBA.

He announced that on November 16th, the tribute exhibition to Rafael Zarza, winner of the Visual Arts Award 2020, will be inaugurated, to whom, due to the pandemic, it was not possible to give him the award or to hold his exhibition, which is currently being assembled. 

The permanent exhibitions can be found at the Universal Art Building as they traditionally are, along with the exhibition Acquisitions of the National Museum of Fine Arts 2019-2020, inaugurated in December last year where the pieces acquired by the museum at this stage are exhibited and that although a version was made at that time, had little opportunity to be appreciated in person.

The museum opens its doors from Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00am to 4:00 pm, stated the technical director of the MNBA.

Source: Tribuna de la Habana