Museums and Other Galleries
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum)
Avenida del Libertador 1902. Recoleta. Opens Tue-Fri 12:30 to 19:30. Sat, Sun and national holidays from 9:30 Am to 19:30.
This museum holds the most important argentine art collection (11.000 art pieces), including all the main artists both of the XIX and XX century. It is a must to visit the modern and contemporary Bemberg Colection, donated by María Luisa Bemberg in the second floor, a renown argentine filmmaker from a very aristocratic family of Buenos Aires (founders of Quilmes Beer Co, the local beer). The Museum also holds important European art pieces donated by the prominent families of Argentina, including a Van Gogh, Monet, and other of the most important artists. This colection is located in the ground floor.
The museum also holds interesting temporary collections.
Avenida Figueroa Alcorta 3415 - Palermo Chico.
MALBA is the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires. This private museum was founded by Eduardo Constantini, -a generous businessman who donated his private collection of Latin American Art, bought the land and built the museum. This is up to date the most modern of the Museums of Buenos Aires, and features the Constantini permanent collection plus very interesting temporary exhibits of the main contemporary Latin America artists. The permanent collection itself makes the visit to the MALBA a must. You will discover the different schools of modern and contemporary Latin American Art, from the 20’s to nowadays. This is one of the most important Latin American Collections. In the museum they also hold very interesting temporary exhibits, installations, video art, etc.
Lafinur 2988, Palermo.
The Evita Museum is located in what it used to be a single mothers transit house part of the social work of Evita. You can feel there the strong passions she generated (both very deep hate and love). The exhibit includes information and documentaries about her social work, speeches, some of her dresses and jewelry, etc. If you are interested in this complex icon of Argentina -beyond Lloyd weber simplifications for the musical- you cam make a visit to the museum, to get an idea of all the interesting things she did in such a short life.
Laprida 1212, Recoleta - Tue to Fri 12 a 19.30 hs. / Sat. 12 to 19hs. Guided visits: Tuesday, Thrsday And Saturday, 16.30hs. Tel: (54 11) 4824.3302 / 4821.5378 xulsolar@ciudad.com.ar
This museum is located in Xul’s former house. Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (1888-1963) -he renamed himself Xul Solar- was one of the greatest vanguard artists of Argentina, and a very interesting person. Xul Solar Xul was essentially an esoteric artist, in all of his career he focused in the search of a superior knowledge, of a non revealed truth. This search guided him during all its life and directed his artistic approach to different religions and belief systems. Most of his paintings are based on spiritual or religious symbols. His trip to Europe in 1912 inserts him in a context marked by the occultism, anthroposophy, theosophy and other knowledge related to them.
Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano (Isaac Fernández Blanco)
Suipacha 1422, Retiro. Tue-Sun 14-19.
This museum functions in Palacio Noel an Impressive Neocolonial mansion that dates from 1920. The collection includes different artistic expressions from the Spanish colonial era, including silver works, paintings, imagery, other colonial representations and XIX century works.
Museo de la Ciudad (City Museum)
Alsina 412 - Defensa 219 / 223, San Telmo.
The city museum compiles pieces of Buenos Aires everyday life from the foundation in the XVI century to nowadays. Interesting place to get an immersion in Buenos Aires customs, traditions, past and present of the city daily life.
Quinquela Martin Museum
Pedro de Mendoza 1835. La Boca.
The building where this museum stands was recently remodeled. It is located on the land donated by Quinquela Martin, in front of the Riachuelo, in the Vuelta de Rocha. Its wide terraces and different levels host paintings, sculptures and engravings of the collection of more than 1,000 pieces, including a collection of plastic artwork. One of the showrooms exhibits masks from schooners, sloops, vapors and famous ships.
Museo Historico National (National History Museum)
Defensa 1600, in Parque Lazama. San Telmo
In an old house located in the heart of Parque Lezama, the National Historical Museum exhibits objects and works of art from the pre-Columbian Argentina period, the colonial periods and the past. In addition, it exhibits an important collection of artillery pieces and decorative elements from many time periods and traces the history of the foundation of Buenos Aires.
For details of these and other museums, have a look here. And also here.
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