Malba was founded in September 2001 by the Eduardo F. Costantini Foundation with the aim of collecting, preserving, studying and disseminating Latin American art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It is a private, non-profit institution that preserves and exhibits a heritage of more than 700 works by the region's leading modern and contemporary artists. It combines a dynamic calendar of temporary exhibitions, with the permanent exhibition of its institutional collection, and works simultaneously as a plural space for the production of cultural and educational activities. It offers cycles of cinema, literature and design, and carries out an important task of education through programs aimed at different types of audiences.