Ponce - Ponce Museum of Art

(Local Name: Museo del Arte de Ponce) Visitors interested in Art will be pleasantly surprised by the Museo del Arte de Ponce (Ponce Museum of Art). For a city the size of Ponce, the collection at the museum is quite amazing. Representing 500 years of Western Art, The Museo del Arte de Ponce houses more than 850 paintings, 800 sculptures, and more than 500 prints in its collection. Former governor Luis Ferré donated the collection and building which houses it in 1959. Featured in the collection are pre-Raphaelite works and Italian baroque paintings, as well as works by Diego Velázquez, Benjamin West, Peter Paul Rubens and Eugène Delacroix. Puerto Rican artists Francisco Oller and José Campeche are also featured.