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Official museum sites for exhibitions, collections, and visitor information.

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Canada · Regional

Glenbow

Glenbow in Calgary collects Alberta history and western Canadian art, including Indigenous belongings, painting, photography, decorative arts, and extensive archives documenting prairie settlement and ranching.

PaidPaintingOfficial
glenbow.orgEnglish

Brazil · Regional

Museu Oscar Niemeyer

Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba is known for its eye-shaped building and holds Brazilian modern art, photography, design, and architectural drawings, with frequent temporary shows.

PaidPaintingOfficial
museuoscarniemeyer.org.brPortuguese / English

Brazil · Regional

Museu de Arte da Bahia

Museu de Arte da Bahia in Salvador, the state's oldest museum, holds colonial Brazilian painting, religious sculpture, furniture, and Asian ceramics in a historic mansion, and runs education programmes.

FreePaintingOfficial
ba.gov.brPortuguese

Brazil · Regional

Museu de Arte do Rio

Museu de Arte do Rio, on Praça Mauá, examines Brazilian art and social history through painting, photography, and urban archives from the colonial era to today.

PaidPaintingOfficial
museudeartedorio.org.brPortuguese / English

Brazil · Regional

Fundação Iberê Camargo

Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, designed by Álvaro Siza, holds the Rio Grande do Sul painter's paintings and prints and hosts contemporary exhibitions in a concrete building that is a landmark of southern Brazilian architecture.

PaidPaintingOfficial
iberecamargo.org.brPortuguese

Mexico · National

Museo de Arte Moderno

Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park holds twentieth-century Mexican painting and sculpture, including Frida Kahlo, Siqueiros, and the Ruptura generation, with temporary shows and a strong education programme.

PaidPaintingOfficial
mam.inba.gob.mxSpanish / English

Mexico · National

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City is a national arts venue known for murals, architecture, and performance, with major works by Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros.

PaidPaintingOfficial
museopalaciodebellasartes.inba.gob.mxSpanish / English

Mexico · National

Museo Soumaya

Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, run by the Carlos Slim Foundation, holds Rodin, Dalí, European old masters, and Mexican colonial to contemporary art across two venues.

FreePaintingOfficial
museosoumaya.orgSpanish / English

Mexico · Regional

Museo Amparo

Museo Amparo in Puebla's historic centre covers pre-Hispanic to contemporary Mexican art, with colonial painting and a strong photography programme in a restored colonial building, plus regular talks and tours.

PaidPaintingOfficial
museoamparo.comSpanish / English

Mexico · Regional

MARCO

MARCO in downtown Monterrey, housed in a former courthouse, focuses on Latin American contemporary painting, photography, and installation, and hosts talks, film screenings, and education programmes.

PaidPaintingOfficial
marco.org.mxSpanish / English

Mexico · Regional

Museo Universitario del Chopo

Museo Universitario del Chopo at UNAM in Mexico City focuses on contemporary art, alternative music, and youth culture, with experimental, interdisciplinary shows in a historic iron-and-glass pavilion that is itself part of the visit.

PaidPhotographyOfficial
chopo.unam.mxSpanish

Argentina · Regional

Castagnino+macro

Castagnino+macro in Rosario combines Argentine modern painting and sculpture across a park museum and a converted riverside market, with frequent temporary shows and a public programme.

FreePaintingOfficial
castagninomacro.orgSpanish

Argentina · Regional

Museo Emilio Caraffa

Museo Emilio Caraffa in Córdoba uses nine galleries to stage Argentine contemporary painting, photography, installation, and local art history, with talks, workshops, and an active education programme.

FreePaintingOfficial
museocaraffa.org.arSpanish

Argentina · Regional

MUNTREF

MUNTREF, the museum network of Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, focuses on Argentine contemporary art, photography, and migration memory across several venues.

FreePaintingOfficial
museos.untref.edu.arSpanish

Chile · Regional

Museo de Artes Visuales MAVI UC

MAVI UC in Santiago's Lastarria district focuses on Chilean contemporary painting, sculpture, prints, and photography, is part of the Catholic University, and runs talks, workshops, and a conservation laboratory.

FreePaintingOfficial
mavi.uc.clSpanish / English

Chile · Regional

Museo Regional de Magallanes

Museo Regional de Magallanes in Punta Arenas, housed in the Braun Menéndez palace, holds Patagonian Indigenous objects, regional painting, and decorative arts, and preserves the palace period interiors.

FreePaintingOfficial
museodemagallanes.gob.clSpanish

Chile · Regional

Museo Baburizza

Museo Baburizza in Valparaíso, in the Palacio Baburizza above the Pacific, holds 19th- and 20th-century European and Chilean painting and harbour-city history, and preserves the palace interiors and harbour views.

PaidPaintingOfficial
museobaburizza.clSpanish / English

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