The Florencio Molina Campos museum was inaugurated on November 24, 1979, on the initiative of the Florencio Molina Campos Foundation. It was built specifically as a museum for the purpose of perpetuating the work of the artist.
The museum belongs to the Foundation. It is located in the Moreno district, five blocks away from “West Side” Gaona Highway, and ten blocks away from the Moreno Train Station, former Sarmiento Railway, at N°342, Molina Campos Street, at Victorica corner. The main building, surrounded by a large garden, exhibits the works and objects that belonged to the artist and also houses a library, offices, and other.
Its endowment consists of works that were family inheritance as well as other picturesthat were part of local and foreign private collections. There are 122 works exhibited.
The extraordinary collection donated after Laroque Tinker’s death by Joshua B. Powers and the Laroque Tinker Foundation, gathered by both in the United States, deserves a special mention.
The building of the museum as well as its architectural style was in charge of Professor Juan Carlos Ocampo. Architects Enrique S. Escribano and Oscar R. Lucchini were in charge of the project.
The management of the Museum is the responsibility of Consuelo Güiraldes
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