"Lucio Acosta Cerra" Museum School

Belgrano 1135
Cultural Secretariat Tel. No. 088-221343
Open Mondays through Fridays
from 8 to 12a.m. and from 4 to 8p.m.

This museum was inaugurated in May 1980 with an exhibition of the works of the late professor Lucio Acosta Cerra and local plastic artists. This painter from Jujuy was a Surrealist in the style of Salvador Dalí. The original collection included his own works and those of his sister-in-law, the artist Araceli Vázquez Málaga. Every year this museum organizes the salon of children's art and, in addition to the exhibition of its permanent collection, it holds temporary exhibitions of the works of artists from Jujuy and the rest of the country. There are over 140 works of art that cannot be exhibited because of lack of space and are in storage.

San Salvador de Jujuy
This city is the capital of the province of Jujuy. It lies 1,660 km. away from the city of Buenos Aires and 1,260m above sea level. It has 185,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by an awesome chain of multicolored mountains. Worthy of visiting is its Cathedral which was built in 1750 and has a pulpit carved in ñandubay wood by the Indians, the chapel of Saint Barbara dating from 1777, and the Cabildo.