{"id":2512,"date":"2025-05-30T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:57:27","slug":"el-museo-del-barrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/museums\/el-museo-del-barrio\/","title":{"rendered":"El Museo del Barrio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Address: 1230 5 th Avenue at 104 th Street New York<\/p>\n

Phone:\u00a0212-831-7272<\/p>\n

Working hours:\u00a0Mon-Wed Closed,\u00a0Thurs-Sun 11:00 am\u20135 pm<\/p>\n

El Museo is closed on New Year\u2019s Day, Fourth of July,\u00a0Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day<\/p>\n

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ABOUT<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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New York\u2019s leading Latino cultural institution, welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures. Their richness is represented in El Museo\u2019s wide-ranging collections and exhibitions, complemented by film, literary, visual and performing arts series, cultural celebrations, and educational programs.<\/p>\n

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HISTORY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. Through its extensive collections, varied exhibitions and publications, bilingual public programs, educational activities, festivals and special events, El Museo educates its diverse public in the richness of Caribbean and Latin American arts and cultural history. By introducing young people to this cultural heritage, El Museo is creating the next generation of museum-goers, while satisfying the growing interest in Caribbean and Latin American art of a broad national and international audience.<\/div>\n
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HISTORY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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El Museo was founded more than 50 years ago by artist and educator Raphael Monta\u00f1ez Ortiz and a coalition of Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists, and activists who noted that mainstream museums largely ignored Latino artists. Since its inception, El Museo has been committed to celebrating and promoting Latino culture, thus becoming a cornerstone of El Barrio, and a valuable resource for New York City. El Museo\u2019s varied permanent collection of over 8,000 objects, spans more than 800 years of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art, includes pre-Columbian Ta\u00edno artifacts, traditional arts, twentieth-century drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, as well as prints, photography, documentary films, and video. For a brief overview of our history and to explore the institutional chronology and exhibition history year by year,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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OUR PURPOSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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El Museo del Barrio\u2019s purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the art and artifacts of Caribbean and Latin American cultures for posterity.<\/p>\n

To enhance the sense of identity, self-esteem and self-knowledge of the Caribbean and Latin American peoples by educating them in their artistic heritage and bringing art and artists into their communities.<\/p>\n

To provide an educational forum that promotes an appreciation and understanding of Caribbean and Latin American art and culture and its rich contribution to North America.<\/p>\n

To offer Caribbean and Latin American artists greater access to institutional support in the national and international art world.<\/p>\n

To convert young people of Caribbean and Latin American descent into the next generation of museum-goers, stakeholders in the institution created for them.<\/p>\n

To fulfill our special responsibility as a center of learning and training ground for the growing numbers of artists, educators, art historians, and museum professionals interested in Caribbean and Latin American art.<\/p>\n

This mission reaffirms the vision of Raphael Monta\u00f1ez Ortiz, who founded El Museo del Barrio in 1969, and of the Puerto Rican educators, artists, and community activists who worked in support of this goal.<\/p>\n

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Information taken from the website:\u00a0www.elmuseo.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo taken from the site:\u00a0www.timeout.com\/newyork\/museums\/el-museo-del-barrio<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Address: 1230 5 th Avenue at 104 th Street New York Phone:\u00a0212-831-7272 Working hours:\u00a0Mon-Wed Closed,\u00a0Thurs-Sun 11:00 am\u20135 pm El Museo is closed on New Year\u2019s Day, Fourth of July,\u00a0Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day         ABOUT New York\u2019s leading Latino cultural institution, welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}