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METROPOLITAN CULTURAL CENTER
The Metropolitan Cultural Center is located in one of the main buildings of the downtown, southern side of the Government Palace.
Centro Cultural Metropolitano coexists with the remodeled Biblioteca Municipal, which possesses a large collection, especially old books dating from colonial times, also offers Internet access to the municipal libraries local network, for any type of research.
The Centro Cultural Metropolitano offers with regularity temporary exhibitions of various types of art: painting, sculpture, photography, etc.. In the older barracks of the Royal Audience of Quito, works the Alberto Mena Caamano Museum and its permanent room "De Quito al Ecuador" where, with wax figures, is recreate the massacre of August 2nd , 1810 in the same place where the facts happened.
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QUITO CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
Old Military Hospital in Quito is now the Contemporary Art Center of the city which offers new exhibit spaces for painting, theater, dance, sculpture, photography, visual and digital arts, performances and other artistic expression
It was built by resolution of the President Eloy Alfaro, in order to be a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. The hospital had this role until 1922 when it became a military barracks.
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In 2008 it was opened with the name "El Bicentenario," this in remembrance of the creation of First Sovereign Government Committee on South American soil, on August 10th, 1809.
The building has several pavilions and exhibition halls, it provides new museum technologies for different types of exposures. It also has a coffee shop and a bookstore. Soon there will be a library, media center, auditorium and stores.
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