点评:Although it’s a large, 2-storey building with rooms all around a large central courtyard, only 4 galleries were open, and really what was on display was nothing more than the folk art collection. Although they have vastly narrowed what is on display, this is definitely a museum any art-lover should visit in San Juan, although I would not call it a historical museum.
The best gallery showcased the works of one artist who took the wooden shutters off old mansions before they were demolished. He then put fused glass on them to make various designs. It’s really great, and about the only preservation that was done before the mansions were demolished. Another gallery has all kinds of cards on the walls and in cases from a local painter that he sent to his son while he was travelling the world. It’s a brilliant concept, and the gallery contains their correspondence from his son's youth into adulthood.
The other two open rooms are more general in nature. There are displays of pottery, native cosutmes, religious stuff and carnival masks. Toss in a bit of history of post-colonial Puerto Rico, and there you have it.
翻译:虽然这是一座大型的两层建筑,四周环绕着一个大型中央庭院,但只有 4 个画廊开放,而且真正展出的只是民间艺术收藏品。虽然他们已经大大缩小了展出的范围,但这绝对是圣胡安任何艺术爱好者都应该参观的博物馆,尽管我不会称它为历史博物馆。
最好的画廊展示了一位艺术家的作品,他在旧豪宅被拆除之前拆下了木制百叶窗。然后,他在上面放上熔融玻璃,制作出各种图案。这真的很棒,而且几乎是豪宅被拆除前唯一一次保护。另一个画廊的墙上和盒子里挂着当地画家的各种卡片,这些卡片都是他在环游世界时寄给儿子的。这是一个绝妙的概念,画廊里收藏着他们从儿子年轻到成年的通信。
另外两个开放的房间性质更一般。有陶器、土著服饰、宗教物品和狂欢节面具的展示。加上一点后殖民时期波多黎各的历史,你就明白了。