MEXICO CITY.- María Cristina García Cepeda, Secretary of Culture, announced on the 16th of January that Dr. Sara Gabriela Baz Sánchez will be leading the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), the precinct with the most important collection of Mexican art in the country.

With a trajectory of more than seventeen years working in museums (curatorship, research, general coordination of temporal exhibits, art work register and collection control), Sara Baz worked as vice director of the Museo Nacional de Arte for more than seven years (2008-2014) and was director of the Museo Nacional del Virreinato, INAH (2015 – 2016).

Sara Gabriela Baz Sánchez was born in Mexico City in 1976 and has a Bachelor in History of Art from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Master´s degrees in Art Studies (UIA), History (El Colegio de México) and Mexican Historiography (UAM – A); she later obtained a PhD in History from El Colegio de México.

With an extraordinary academic profile, the director of the MUNAL has collaborated with important researches, curatorships and publications, she also has coordinated national and international exhibitions such as Miguel Cabrera. Las tramas de la creación (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, INAH), Landscapes of the Mind. Paisajismo británico. Colección Tate. 1690-2007 (MUNAL), El hombre al desnudo. Dimensiones de la masculinidad a partir de 1800 (MUNAL), José Guadalupe Posada. Transmisor (MUNAL), Surrealismo. Vasos comunicantes (MUNAL), Escher y sus contemporáneos. Colección del Rijksmuseum de Amsterdam (MUNAL), among many others.

In the other hand, Dr. Sara Baz has a great trajectory as a teacher of History of Art in the UIA, she has coordinated editorial projects for magazines such as M Museos de México and is author of seventeen published articles, as well as catalogue entries of art work commented in permanent and temporary exhibitions.

Throughout her trajectory, Dr. Baz has outstood for her professionalism and commitment with the Mexican cultural sector, besides contributing with the promotion and preservation of art through diverse disciplines such as teaching and research.

The Museo Nacional de Arte, located at Tacuba 8 in Mexico City, has the function of conserving, exhibiting, studying and spreading the Mexican art works produced between the second half of the XVI century to the XX century. The museum seeks to generate reflection and enjoyment on art, through the access to educational projects and by exhibiting the pieces which are part of its collection.

The permanent rooms of the Museo Nacional de Arte offer to the public a walkthrough five centuries of history of Mexican art, with more than 6,000 pieces of masters of the size of: Andrés de Concha, José Juárez, Sebastián López de Arteaga, Cristóbal de Villalpando, Miguel Cabrera, Manuel Tolsá, Santiago Rebull, Felipe S. Gutiérrez, Juan Cordero, José María Velasco, Saturnino Herrán, Ángel Zárraga, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl), María Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among many others.