Museum of Contemporary Art MAM
Av. Lafayete Coutinho - Com rcio Salvador - BA, 40015-160, Brazil
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAM), which is located in the historic site of El Salvador, was founded in the early 1960s.
The museum has eight exhibition halls, a theater, a library and an art workshop. In the museum you can see paintings, engravings, sculptures, photographs, as well as try to create your own work of art. Here are the works of Tarsil do Amaral, Portinari, Flavio de Carvalho, Di Cavalcanti, Pansetti and other Brazilian and foreign masters.
The museum is considered an important site for contemporary art in the country, which is visited annually by about 200,000 people. The museum regularly hosts cultural events in different languages of the world and has a permanent program of educational activities.
The museum is located in a white manor, built in the XVII century.