Arts & Culture
On the Río Piedras campus in San Juan, the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico is recognized as the island’s oldest museum and the first official public museum in Puerto Rico. Its origins reach back to 1914, when Federico Degetau donated his art collection, and it later acquired Francisco Oller’s El Velorio, which became its most famous work. An earlier university museum organized by Rafael W. Ramírez de Arellano focused on archaeology and Puerto Rican history, and Ricardo Alegría became its first director. Since 1959, its collections have been housed in a building designed by Henry Klumb, with extensive archaeological, artistic, documentary, and ethnographic holdings.
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