Museo Fernando Garcia Ponce Macay
The Fernando García Ponce-Macay Museum is the only museum dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of modern and contemporary art throughout the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico.
Every year it receives an average of 72 thousand visitors. And if something distinguishes it, it is its deep educational vocation, serving more than 22 thousand children a year, through special programs, courses, workshops and guided tours.
The Fernando García Ponce-Macay Museum's mission is to promote the dissemination and knowledge of modern and contemporary national and international art. For this reason, every three months, its 15 temporary exhibition rooms are renewed at the same time, carrying out around 45 annual samples, with a work movement of about 2,000 pieces each time.
The discursive line of its temporary exhibitions aims to expose and document the artistic expressions produced from the beginning of the 20th century to the avant-garde and new routes of expression.
The property has 15 rooms for temporary exhibitions, two galleries and four permanent rooms, where the work of three great figures of Yucatecan art is exhibited: Fernando Castro Pacheco, Fernando García Ponce and Gabriel Ramírez Aznar.
The total surface of the Museum is 3,500 m2, including the two interior spaces: the Jardin de las Tinajas and the Expoforo. This last area allows the exhibition of large format works, thanks to its large size (capacity for 500 people seated), very much in line with new trends and artistic productions.
The Fernando García Ponce-Macay Museum is also the only museum to have two original productions: the radio program Arte Conexión and the television program La Hora Cultural Macay. In addition, a cultural bulletin is published quarterly, with distribution in the 5 continents.
There is also a cafeteria, shop and a library specialized in art, whose heritage is specialized in painting, sculpture, architecture, photography and ceramics. The newspaper archive deserves a special mention, specialized in art and culture with 1,945 themes of archeology, architecture, crafts, artists, cinematography, design, ecology, photography and museums, etc.