Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of Fine Arts

Blanes Museum is an art museum founded in 1930. Now the museum exposition is located in the building of the Villa Palladio, which was built by the engineer Juan Alberto Capurro. The building was built with the best building materials, it is decorated with Carrara marble, statues and decorative vases.

Several museum halls house paintings by Uruguayan artists. The largest halls of the museum are the halls of Juan Manuel Blanes and Pedro Figari, which house permanent exhibitions of two artists.

In addition to the works of these artists, the museum houses works by Carlos Gonzalez, Pedro Viale, Gilberto Bellini, Carlos Castellianos, Rafael Barrados and Jose Cuneo. Contemporary art is represented by paintings by Joaquin Garcia, Carlos Capelan, Liliana Porter, Herman Cabrera, Ernesto Vila and others. The museum also has a place for the works of famous European masters – 2,600 paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures.

In front of the museum is the only Japanese garden in Montevideo.