The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires – a public museum dependent from the Ministry of Culture of the Buenos Aires City Government – aspires to be a beacon for Argentinian modern and contemporary art, both nationally and internationally, by promoting artistic creation and imaginative development, encouraging constant research and the experimental attitude of Argentinian artists, and supporting the production of works, exhibitions and publications, and the dissemination of ideas and professional training. The Museo Moderno preserves the largest public collection of Argentinian Modern and Contemporary Art and seeks to grow as a dynamic, flexible, permeable museum that promotes listening and constant horizontal dialogue with society and multiplies the links between art and education to foster a culture of belonging.
The Museo Moderno stands in and from the South as an inclusive, federal, accessible, caring space that shoulders the responsibility of encouraging artistic thought with and within a vibrant and extensive art community. The Museo Moderno sees art as a vehicle for discovery, knowledge, understanding and healing in kindred dialogue with artists and their diverse audiences.
The Museo Moderno was founded in 1956 by Rafael Squirru, who imagined a museum in constant motion, capable of navigating the most challenging waters aboard the good ship Yapeyú, on which the Museum launched its first exhibition of Argentinian artists, reaching twenty-two ports around the world. This image of a museum on the move – intrepid, steeped in the climate of the now and determined to steer a course of uncertainty and challenge, but also of future discovery – is the museum that inspires, strengthens and propels us towards the future.
The contemporary artist seeks to build a place in the world through their art and has the courage to imagine a better world, for themself and for future generations. This constructive thinking and understanding of the past, this grasp of the complexity of the present and building of hope towards the future is what guides this Modern Museum on its path to sustainability, equity and inclusion while strengthening freedom of expression and imaginative development, fundamental drivers for human development.
