The Centro de Arte Fundación Ortiz Gurdián in León (Nicaragua) acquired and reconditioned the former Casa Martha Juárez to exhibit works by international artists. This new exhibition space joins a group of other venues that the Fundación Ortiz Gurdián has been acquiring for the last seventeen years for the dissemination of culture. The revamping of this colonial house involved reconditioning the spaces with natural lighting and preserving the courtyards. Likewise, a fountain was added that matches the décor of this building that, incidentally, is connected to the Casa Norberto Ramírez. Dulce María Duarte, deputy director of the Centro de Arte in León, said that the Casa Martha Juárez is the fifth colonial structure—built between the 18th and 19th centuries—used to exhibit artworks of great quality. Duarte also added that in the new space "visitors will be able to admire works by a number of artists who emerged from New York during the 1930s and 1940s and from the Pop Art movement." In reference to an additional exhibition of engravings, Duarte said that "They represent an important medium within the vanguards and for that reason they will be permanently exhibited at the Casa Martha Juárez." The Centro de Arte is located at the intersection of Calle Real (Avenida Rubén Darío) and Tercera Avenida Noroeste, across from Santuario San Francisco, a venue that exhibits Western art from the following periods: Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Latin American Modernism, Pre-Columbian art, and contemporary art.