ALGUNOS MUSEOS DE TACUAREMB

En una de las visitas a Tacuaremb, estuvimos en algunos de los museos de la ciudad.

Museo de Artes Visuales
Museo del Indio y del Gaucho, y
Museo de Geociencias.


MUSEO DE ARTES VISUALES (MUART)

Direccin: 18 de julio esq. Washington Beltrn
Telfono: 4632 0847
Colecciones: Arte

En setiembre de 1985 fue creado por decreto de la Junta Departamental, la
inauguracin del Museo se efecta en diciembre de 2009.
La misin de MUART es rescatar, preservar, investigar, exhibir y comunicar el
Patrimonio Cultural relativo a las Artes Visuales del Departamento, de la regin y del
pas en sus ms diversas expresiones: pintura, escultura, grabado fotografa, diseo,
manifestaciones audiovisuales, arte digital, etc.
Su objetivo general es sensibilizar con respecto a las Artes Plsticas contribuyendo a la
formacin artstica del pblico en general, especialmente nios y jvenes, para que a
travs de instancias de participacin socio - cultural en las propuestas y actividades
programadas puedan conocer, consultar, valorar y disfrutar sus diversas expresiones
proporcionando el reconocimiento de la diversidad cultural y artstica en el marco de
un proceso de democratizacin de la cultura y de la inclusin social, ntimamente
vinculado con la consolidacin de sentimiento de la identidad y pleno ejercicio de la
ciudadana.
Se exhiben obras de arte de ms de cien artistas Tacuaremboenses y Uruguayos.
Esta instalado en el edificio donde funcionara la primera radioemisora de la ciudad de
Tacuaremb.
ALGUNOS ARTISTAS: Anhelo Hernndez, Jos Manuel Sosa Cabrera, Abel Gmez, Gustavo
Alamn.
Gustavo Alamn nace en Tacuaremb en 1935, estudia con Anhelo Hernndez y contina en la
Escuela de Bellas Artes. Condecorado por el Ministerio de Educacin de Francia, como
Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de Francia. Desde 1970 Alamn refleja la
influencia del cubismo para realizar obras con el tema de la desnaturalizada automatizacin
moderna.
Alamn inici su arte confeccionando piezas sacadas de fotografas. Pero fue criticado y sus
obras no fueron consideradas como arte. Tambin realiz naturalezas muertas y marinas.

MUSEO DEL INDIO Y EL GAUCHO WASHINGTON ESCOBAR



Este interesante centro cultural est situado en la interseccin de las calles Gral.
Artigas y Gral. Flores, en una residencia donada en 1976 por Ramn P. Gonzlez.
El museo fue creado en 1941 por Washington Escobar y tena su sede en la casa
particular del investigador.
En la entrada del mismo nos recibe una hermosa escultura tallada en madera de ceibo,
creada por la artista tacuaremboense Graciana Aranguz.
El patrimonio del museo incluye diversas herramientas y armas ptreas de los
indgenas locales (puntas de flecha, boleadoras, rompecabezas, cermicas varias) as
como numerosos elementos gauchescos (sables, facones, lanzas, trabucos) e
indumentarias partidarias de los blancos y colorados utilizadas en las guerras civiles del
siglo XIX y principios del XX.
(Tel. 463 24671 Int. 188)

EN EXHIBICIN: Morteros, interesantes sillas y bancos confeccionados en madera y hueso.
Puntas de flecha, lanzas, boleadoras, arreos varios. Mortero (municin), trabucos, facones,
utensilios de la poca..

MUSEO DE GEOCIENCIAS



Direccin: Gral. Artigas 191
Telfono: 4632 4671 int. 184
Colecciones: Ciencia y Tecnologa

En Tacuaremb, encontraron los restos fsiles de la tortuga ms antigua del pas. Est
en excelente estado de conservacin y pertenece al perodo Jursico, que tiene 150
millones de aos de antigedad. Aunque restan las pruebas que lo confirmen,
correspondera a una especie desconocida hasta el momento.
En la poca del Jursico, Tacuaremb era un gran desierto con dunas y lagos. Con los
siglos, los milenios y los millones de aos, las arenas se consolidaron y se
transformaron en areniscas. Incluida en las rocas caractersticas de la regin apareci
esta tortuga, al igual que las huellas del dinosaurio herbvoro que vivi en la misma
era.
El director del museo Jorge Da Silva y la profesora Selva Kuster, que integra el equipo
de trabajo del Museo, encontraron el fsil de la tortuga. Fue en la arenisca desnuda,
sin monte, que permite ver los fsiles, y calificaron la zona como el Parque Jursico
en Uruguay.
La caparazn no est completa, pero s la marca que dej en la roca antes de
desintegrarse.

EN EXHIBICIN: Caparazn de Tat Mulita gigante, huellas de moluscos en rocas. Fsiles,
figuras representativas de dinosaurios, piedras semipreciosas.

SOME TACUAREMBO'S MUSEUMS

In one of the visits to Tacuaremb, we were in some of the museums of the city.
- Museum of Visual Arts
- Museum of the Indian and of the Gaucho, and
- Museum of Geosciences.

MUSEUM OF VISUAL ARTS (MUART)
Address: 18 de Julio esq. Washington Beltrn
Telephone: 4632 0847
Collections: Art

In September of 1985 was created by decree of the Departmental Meeting,
the inauguration of the Museum is effected in December, 2009.
MUART's mission is to rescue, to preserve, to investigate, to exhibit and to
communicate the Cultural Heritage relative to the Visual Arts of the
Department, of the region and of the country in his more diverse expressions:
painting, sculpture, engraving photographs, design, audio-visual
manifestations, digital art, etc.
His general aim is to sensitize with regard to the Plastic Arts contributing to
the artistic formation of the public in general, specially children and young
people, in order that across instances of participation partner - cultural in the
offers and programmed activities they could know, consult, to value and to
enjoy his diverse expressions providing the recognition of the cultural and
artistic diversity in the frame of a process of democratization of the culture
and of the social incorporation, intimately linked with the consolidation of
feeling of the identity and full exercise of the citizenship.
Works of art show themselves of more than hundred artists Tacuaremboenses
and Uruguayans.
This Museum is installed in the building where there was working the first radio station
of Tacuaremb's city.
SOME ARTISTS: Anhelo Hernndez, Jos Manuel Sosa Cabrera, Abel Gmez, Gustavo
Alamn.
Gustavo Alamn hes born in Tacuaremb in 1935, studies with Anhelo Hernndez
and continues in the Art school. Decorated by the Department of Education of France,
as " Gentleman of the Order of the Arts and the Letters of France ". From 1970 Alamn
it reflects the influence of the cubism to realize works with the topic of the unnatural
modern automation.
Alamn initiated his art making pieces extracted of photographies. But he was
criticized and his works were not considered to be an art.
Though also he realized dead natures and sea-coasts.

MUSEUM OF THE INDIAN AND OF THE GAUCHO WASHINGTON ESCOBAR



This interesting cultural center is placed in the intersection of the streets Gral. Artigas
and Gral. Flores, in a residence donated in 1976 by Ramon P. Gonzalez.
The museum was created in 1941 by Washington Escobar and it had his
headquarters in the particular house of the investigator.
In the entry of the same one a beautiful sculpture carved in wood receives us
of ceibo, created by the artist tacuaremboense Graciana Aranguz.
The heritage of the museum includes diverse tools and stony weapon of the
local aborigens (tops of arrow, boleadoras, puzzle, different ceramics) as well
as numerous gaucho elements (sabers, big knives, lances, blunderbusses) and
apparels partial to the blancos and colorados used in the civil wars of the
19th century and beginning of the XX.th
- (Tel. 463 24671 Int. 188)

IN EXHIBITION: Mortars, interesting chairs and banks made in wood and bone. Tops of
arrow, lances, boleadoras, different dresses. Mortar (ammunition), blunderbusses, big
knives, utensils of the epoch..

MUSEUM OF GEOSCIENCES



Address: Gral. Artigas 191
Telephone: 4632 4671 int. 184
Collections: Science and Technology

In Tacuaremb, they found the fossil remains of the most ancient tortoise of
the country. It is in excellent condition of conservation and belongs to the
Jurassic period, which has 150 million years of antiquity. Though the tests are
absent that they confirm it, it would correspond to a species not known up to
the moment.
In the epoch of the Jurassic one, Tacuaremb was a great desert with dunes
and lakes. With the centuries, the milleniums and the million years, the sands
were consolidated and transformed in sandstones. Included in the rocks
typical of the region this tortoise appeared, as the fingerprints of the
herbivorous dinosaur that lived in the same age.
The director of the museum Jorge Da Silva and the teacher Selva Kuster, who
integrates the equipment of work of the Museum, they found the fossil of the
tortoise. " It was in the nake sandstone, without mount, which allows to see
the fossils ", and they qualified the zone as " the Jurassic Park in Uruguay ".
The shell is not complete, but yes the brand that stopped in the rock before
disintegrating.

IN EXHIBITION: Shell of giant Tat Mulita, fingerprints of mollusks in rocks. Fossils,
representative figures of dinosaurs, semiprecious stones.













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