Museo Instituto de América - Centro Damián Bayón
Municipal cultural centre in Santa Fe with exhibition rooms, the Espacio Juste and a permanent display on Columbus's voyage and the Capitulations.
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About the museum
The Instituto de América of Santa Fe is an institution of the Santa Fe town council, founded in 1992 to deepen knowledge of American art and culture and to promote it. Its creation is linked to the cultural festival of the Capitulaciones de Santa Fe, which the town celebrates to assert its Columbian character, and to the investment made for the Fifth Centenary of the Discovery of America.
Its headquarters is the Centro Damián Bayón, opened in 1992 in the historic quarter, next to the Colegiata de la Encarnación, on the Plaza de España, the former Plaza de Armas of the military town. The building was erected on the orchards of the Casa Real de Santa Fe and later of the Hospital Real. It houses permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, the Archivo Histórico Municipal (municipal historical archive), a study centre that manages the legacies of the art historian Damián Bayón and the artist Julio Juste, and an auditorium.
The permanent displays include the Espacio Juste, devoted to the work and legacy of Julio Juste Ocaña, and the exhibition on Christopher Columbus's first voyage and the Capitulations signed in Santa Fe in 1492.
Highlights
- Espacio Juste, with the artistic legacy of Julio Juste Ocaña
- Permanent exhibition “De Santa Fe a las Indias. El primer viaje de Cristóbal Colón”
- Damián Bayón legacy, with archive, library and photography collection
- Rooms for temporary exhibitions of Ibero-American and contemporary art
Permanent exhibitions
- Espacio Juste – Permanent display in Room B on the artistic and scientific legacy of Julio Juste Ocaña, deposited by his family at the Instituto de América.
- De Santa Fe a las Indias. El primer viaje de Cristóbal Colón – Permanent exhibition in Room C on the preparations for Columbus's voyage and the Capitulations signed in the Real de Santa Fe on 17 April 1492.
- Founded
- 1992
- Operated by
- Ayuntamiento de Santa Fe
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The centre has an auditorium for concerts, conferences and lectures.
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