Where can you spend the day shopping for high fashion, catch a movie, and view fantastic works of art? How about Plaza las Americas mall in San Juan.

For the next two years, the Ponce Museum of Art (Museo de Arte de Ponce, or MAP) will be closed for renovations, and many of the famous works in MAP’s collection will be traveling and on loan to other museums around the world.

During that time, the museum will have a special mini-museum at the Plaza las Americas mall that they are calling MAP@Plaza. They will have rotating exhibits that include pieces from their own collection, as well as pieces on loan to MAP.

When we went in March 2008, there was a wonderful exhibit of Rodin’s works, entitled the Age of Rodin. The Age of Rodin exhibit offered audiences in Puerto Rico the first in depth look at the work of Rodin and thirteen of his contemporaries active in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It featured over seventy works in bronze, marble, gesso, terracotta, and porcelain.

This Age of Rodin exhibit inaugurated MAP@Plaza, a new venue for the Museo de Arte de Ponce to offer its exhibition and educational programs to an expanded audience. The Rodin exhibit closed April 13th, 2008. The exhibits are always changing and there is something interesting to be seen.

Find the newest exhibits: http://www.museoarteponce.org/index_eng.php

And if you feel you need to do more shopping, there is a museum gift shop right there! It is open daily from 11am.

Admission is $5.00 for adults, $2.50 for children under 12, students with ID, and seniors.

MAP@Plaza is open Monday- Fridays 11:00am – 7:00pm, Saturday 11:00am – 8:00pm, and Sunday 11:00am – 5:00pm.

Allow about 1 hour.

You can call 787-848-0505 for more information.

MAP@Plaza is located on the third floor of the mall next to JC Penney

You can locate Plaza las Americas on our Interactive Island Map