The MAM's story begins on September 20, 1964under the direction of Carmen Marín and with a rich program made up of five exhibitions, including «contemporary painting arising from the muralism of the post -revolution» and another individual exhibition dedicated to Rufino Tamayo, which positioned the museum outside the curatorial line of the moment that was mainly dedicated to the Mexican School of Painting. The rest is history, since from that moment, the Modern Art Museum It became a maximum exponent of the artistic trends of the moment, mainly artistic and conceptual.
Since its foundation, the MAM has played a decisive role in the consolidation and dissemination of a public heritage with a collection that covers the 20 at the present time.Courtesy Museum of Modern Art (Mam)
Its architecture
The architectural work was in charge of icon that erected much of the Mexican landscape of the time, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, with the collaboration of the famous architect Rafael Mijares, who managed to build a milestone of Mexican architecture through a space open to the public that democratized the great design, art and the Mexican cultural scene.
Transit the Mam It is immersing itself in a space out of conventionalities and claims with an organic and irregular route designed to represent the dynamism of modernity.
«The curvature of the exhibition rooms intended to consolidate continuous spaces, in which the total pieces shown established a dialogue between them, while offering the public a friendlier space to travel,» He mentioned the mom.
The architecture of the museum is the work of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Rafael Mijares, who thought an equally disruptive structure as the pieces that it would house.Courtesy Museum of Modern Art (Mam)