The National Art Gallery, in the Parque Central complex, is the principal repository of Venezuelan visual art — about 7,000 works covering five centuries, from colonial portraiture and religious art through the nineteenth-century historical canvases of Martín Tovar y Tovar to twentieth-century modernism: Reverón, Soto, Cruz-Diez, Jesús Soto. The gallery occupies a large brutalist concrete building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llarena and opened in 1976.
Entry has historically been free. Programming has been intermittent in recent years — check current hours before going. Combine with the adjacent Museo de Arte Contemporáneo for a full half-day of Caracas modernism.