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Address:
Ateneo Art Gallery, Level 2, Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines 1108
Opening Hours:
M - F 8.00 AM - 7.30 PM
Saturday 8.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Closed on Sundays and Holidays
Contact:
Ramon E. S. Lerma, Curator
Phone: +632 4266001 loc. 4160
Fax: +632 426.6488
Links:
Ateneo Art Gallery
Ateneo de Manila University
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Description:
The Ateneo Art Gallery - widely recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art - showcases works by postwar Filipino artists donated to the Ateneo de Manila University from 1959 to 1961 by the late Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-1984). An internationally renowned painter and art scholar, Zóbel had intended his donation to be the start of a permanent Philippine contemporary collection for the University's students in the liberal arts. To house and display it temporarily, spaces in Bellarmine Hall were converted into a gallery which was inaugurated on August 19, 1960. In 1967 the museum moved to more spacious quarters on the Rizal Library ground floor where it has remained ever since.
[Text from the Web site]
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