Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas

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Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art Armando Reverón (Spanish: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Armando Reverón, MACCAR), also known simply as the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (Spanish: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, MACC), is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in the Parque Central Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.

The museum was founded on 30 August 1973 by the journalist and art patron Sofía Ímber, who also served as its director from 1973 to her dismissal during the Chavist cultural revolution in 2001. It opened in 1974 and was the first museum in Venezuela to offer a specialist art library, a formal children's and adults' learning area, a special education department for the blind, and a multimedia arts centre.

The museum's collections contain 5,000 pieces of art, including 700 sculptures. It contains works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Jesús Rafael Soto, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Marisol Escobar, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, and Georges Braque.

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