AwardDecember 10, 2020
NUMU: Nuevo Museo de Santiago
The Fundación Engel announced on December 3 the winner of the contest for constructing the Nuevo Museo de Santiago (NUMU) Chile.
After a national call launched on July 24 of this year, intending to select a preliminary project for the New Museum of Santiago to open in the near future, 76 proposals were received. From that selection, the winner was the proposal by Cristian Fernández Arquitectos, who, among other projects, designed the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral in 2008.
NUMU will house the Chilean and Latin American art collection of the Chilean collector Claudio Engel. The Collection currently has more than 900 works of art, created by more than 140 artists, in various media: painting, sculpture, video-art, photography, large-format installations, performances, sound art, among others.
The museum building will aim to be an architectural reference within its location and an icon for the city. The museum will visually connect with the place's topography, integrating its road junctions and the surrounding landscape and offering views, both immediate and distant geographies. Great importance is attached to the balanced interaction between nature, art, and architecture. The extension and the broad leisure areas surrounding it will be a meeting place, facilitating the park's contemplation and the active use of its visitors.
Although the exhibition rooms and the sound art room are the building's central purpose, the future museum also includes educational rooms, auditorium, library and archives room, cafeteria, restaurant, shop, offices, and warehouses.
For more information, visit: https://fundacionengel.cl/
After a national call launched on July 24 of this year, intending to select a preliminary project for the New Museum of Santiago to open in the near future, 76 proposals were received. From that selection, the winner was the proposal by Cristian Fernández Arquitectos, who, among other projects, designed the Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral in 2008.
NUMU will house the Chilean and Latin American art collection of the Chilean collector Claudio Engel. The Collection currently has more than 900 works of art, created by more than 140 artists, in various media: painting, sculpture, video-art, photography, large-format installations, performances, sound art, among others.
The museum building will aim to be an architectural reference within its location and an icon for the city. The museum will visually connect with the place's topography, integrating its road junctions and the surrounding landscape and offering views, both immediate and distant geographies. Great importance is attached to the balanced interaction between nature, art, and architecture. The extension and the broad leisure areas surrounding it will be a meeting place, facilitating the park's contemplation and the active use of its visitors.
Although the exhibition rooms and the sound art room are the building's central purpose, the future museum also includes educational rooms, auditorium, library and archives room, cafeteria, restaurant, shop, offices, and warehouses.
For more information, visit: https://fundacionengel.cl/
