Buenos Aires' Museums

Museum of Spanish Art" Enrique Larreta"

Museum of Spanish American Art" Isaac Fernández Blanco"

Museum of Sculptures "Luis Perlotti"

Bernardino Rivadavia: The Argentinean Natural Sciences Museum

Museum of Argentine Folk Heritage "José Hernández 

Historical Museum of the city of Buenos Aires "Cornelio Saavedra"

Museum of the Cinema "Pablo Ducrós Hicken"

Museum of Cinema Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken

This Museum is the only one devoted to the Argentine cinema. Its rooms exhibit objects related to the evolution of our cinematography from 1896 up to the present: the first cameras and projectors together with Movieolas, costumes, props, scale models, scenographic sketches, awards and personal objects belonging to actresses, actors and film directors, as well as posters, photographs, recordings, scripts, reviews, etc. Its film library hosts an important collection of over 600 sound films, more than 20 silent movies and the four decades of the Sucesos Argentinos newsreel.

Defensa 1220 (CP 1143)
Telephone: 4361 2462
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from
10 am to 6:30 p.m..
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays.
Transportation: buses 4, 9, 10, 17, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 45, 53, 54, 61, 62, 64, 74, 86, 93, 130, 143, 152.

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Museum of the City

This museum rescues the memory of our city, its architectural heritage and representative items of the life and work of its people, emphasizing with charm and humour its customs and habits. Its collections of great heterogeneity, treasure items that range from a button and a postcard to architectural elements, pieces of furniture, floor tiles, railings, popular mates, and the most diverse constituents of everyday life.

It is situated in a traditional house built in 1894, in the historical area of Monserrat. The old Farmacia de la Estrella, which still maintains its original furniture and decoration from 1900, stands on its ground floor.

Alsina 412 (CP 1087)
Telephone: 4343 2123 / 4331 9855
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 11 am- 7 pm. Sundays: 3-7 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays.
Transportation: buses 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 50, 54, 56, 61, 62, 64, 79, 86, 91, 105, 111, 126, 130, 142, 146, 152. Subways: line A, Plaza de Mayo station; line D, Catedral station and line E, Bolívar station.
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Museum of Modern Art

Its main quarters, in the traditional and historical neighborhood of San Telmo, is a modern architecturally remodeled building created from an old tobacco warehouse. The museum houses its own collections, a valuable aesthetic heritage of contemporary Argentine art -concretists, informalists, neo-figurativists, the Ignacio Pirovano collection, etc., together with works of the most outstanding names of the international fine arts.

Exhibitions of painting, engraving, sculpture, installations, photography, graphic design, are changed regularly, thus linking the public to the most diverse trends of contemporary art.

San Juan 350 (CP 1147)
Telephone: 361 1121
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 8 pm. Saturday, Sunday and holidays: from 11 to 8 pm.
Guided tours. All public: Tuesday to Sunday at 5 pm. Institutions: request appointment by telephone.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays in both premises.
Transportation: buses 4, 9, 10, 17, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 45, 53, 54, 61, 62, 64, 74, 86, 93, 130, 143, 152.
Av. Corrientes 1530 9th floor (CP 1042)
Telephone: 374 9426
Opening hours: Tue. to Sun. from 12 to 8 pm.
Transportation: buses 5, 6, 7, 12, 23, 24, 26, 37, 50, 60, 102, 105, 115, 146, 150, 155. Subway: line B, Uruguay station.
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Museum Of Spanish American Art Isaac Fernández Blanco

Its cultural assets of Ibero American colonial art are considered among the most important in the continent and are famous the world over. The collection of colonial silverware gathers dazzling objects from the Alto Perú, Perú and the Río de la Plata. Worthy of notice are the paintings from the AltoPerú and Cuzco , the imagery from Quito and the Jesuits, the Luso-Brazilian furniture and the decorative arts from the republican period. The Museum is located in the Palacio Noel built in the neocolonial style representative of the '20s, with gardens of Spanish inspiration.

Suipacha 1422 (CP 1011)
Telephone: 4327 0272 / 4327 0228
Opening hours: Tue. to Sun from 2-7 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Thursdays.
Transportation: buses 62, 67, 70, 92, 93, 100, 101, 115, 130, 152. Subway: line C, Retiro station. Terminals of the Mitre, San Martín and Belgrano railway lines.
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Museum of Argentine Folk Heritage José Hernández

The Museum is devoted to the preservation of the testimonies from the multiple variants of the Argentine folkloric and traditional heritage.

Frequently visited by tourists from all over our country and from abroad, its dioramas of a pulpería (rural grocery store and drinking establishment), a cockfight, and a scene of women and girls at the loom are also appealing to the families who live in the metropolitan area.

Avenida del Libertador 2373 (CP 1425)
Telefax: 802 7294 / 803 2384
Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday: 1-7 pm. Saturday and Sunday: 3-8 pm
Information: Mon. to Fri: 9 am-8 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Sundays.
Public transportation: buses 10, 37, 38, 41, 59, 60, 67, 92, 95, 102, 110, 128, 130.
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Museum of Spanish Art Enrique Larreta

It specializes in Spanish art and exhibits works spanning from the 13th. to the 20th. centuries; polychrome carvings and retable; credenzas, tapestries, carpets, braziers and ceramics; paintings, chests and friar's armchairs, among other pieces of great value. This Museum is housed in the former residence of the author of La Gloria de Don Ramiro, which was built in the second half of the 19th. century. It keeps alive the spirit that Larreta, a refined collector, imparted to the whole building.

Located in what once was an area of summer villas, in the center of the Belgrano neighbourhood, it has an Andalusian garden, unique in its style in Buenos Aires, where the rumour of Moorish fountains can still be enjoyed.

Juramento 2291 (CP 1428)
Telephone: 4783 2640 / 4784 4040
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 2 to 7:45 pm. Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 3 to 7:45 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Tuesdays.
Public transportation: buses 41, 44, 57, 60, 63, 65, 67, 68, 80, 113, 114, 152, 159, 168, 184.
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Museum of Sculptures Luis Perlotti

Located in the area of Caballito, it is the home and workshop where this important Argentine sculptor performed almost all his work, characterized by an Americanist subject matter.

Both renowned and new sculptors are offered the opportunity of presenting their work in its rooms.

Pujol 642 (CP 1405)
Telephone: 4431 2825/4433 3396
Opening hours: Tue. to Fri.: 11 am-7 pm. Saturday and Sunday: 10 am-1 pm and 2-8 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays.
Transportation: buses 25, 26, 55, 76, 84, 86, 92, 96, 99, 106, 124, 132, 141, 172, 181. Subway: line A, Primera Junta station. Train: Sarmiento line, Caballito train station.
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Historical Museum of the City of Buenos Aires Brigadier General Cornelio de Saavedra

It is located on the farm that once belonged to Luis María Saavedra, built around 1870. Its rooms allow the visitor to come close to the everyday life of the city during the 19th. century and to become acquainted with the main political, social and economic events of that time. Also on display are civil and rural silverware, the setting of a tertulia (social gathering for conversation) in Buenos Aires, testimonies of the process of emancipation and of the federal period, paintings by Leonie Matthis, collections of back combs, jewelry, coins and weapons, as well as the men's and women's fashion of the 18th. and 19th. centuries.

Crisólogo Larralde 6309 (CP 1431)
Telephone: 4572 0746
Opening hours: Tue. to Fri.: 9 am - 6 pm. Sun.: 2-6 pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays.
Public transportation: buses 21, 28, 110, 111, 112, 117, 127, 140, 142, 175, 176. 
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Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sívori

Specialized in Argentine art, this Museum assembles a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings and tapestries from the 19th and the 20th centuries. Over 4200 pieces form its artistic wealth which is representative of the successive generations of artists.

The Museum organizes the Annual Manuel Belgrano Art Exhibition, the Tapestry Biennial, the Annual Sketches Exhibition, and the "Benito Quinquela Martín" Colour Festival.

Av. de la Infanta Isabel 555 (CP 1425) across the Puente del Rosedal, Parque 3 de Febrero.
Telephone: 4774 9452
Telefax: 4778 3855
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10 am - 8 pm, Sundays, Saturdays and holidays: 10 am - 7pm.
Admission charge: $1,00
Free admission: Wednesdays.

Transportation: buses 10, 34, 37, 130, 161.
Library: Argentine Art. Tuesday to Friday: 10 am - 7 pm.

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Bernardino Rivadavia: The Argentinean Natural Sciences Museum

The Museum was created by Bernardino Rivadavia in 1812 (2 years after the May revolution). It has a Paleontology room in which you can see part of the dinosaurs found in Argentinean Patagonia (a very rich archeological area). In addition, there are room dedicated to Geology, Aquarium, Sea Giants, Compared Anatomy, Botanic, and Birds.

Angel Gallardo 490  (zip code C1405DJR
Telephone/Fax: 4982-4494

Opening hours: Monday to sunday from 10 am -7 8 pm,
Admission charge: $2,00

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