"Enrique Larreta" Spanish Art Museum: This museum has a collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramic and other representative items from Spain dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries as well as some medieval works from the beginning of the 20th century. This collection belonged to Argentine writer Enrique Larreta who, advised by Architect Martin Noel, remodeled an old house located in Belgrano's neighborhood making it look as a Spanish "neocolonial" construction, surrounded by an Andalusian garden of seven thousand square meters.
Address: Av. Juramento 2291 (Belgrano neighborhood)
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 2pm to 8pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 3pm to 8pm.
Price: $1, Thursday free.
Museum of Spanish-American Art "Isaac Fernandez Blanco": This mansion was built in colonial style and it has an important collection of silver, paintings and antique furniture.
Address: Suipacha 1422 (Retiro neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 7pm, Saturday and Sundays from 2pm to 7pm.
Price: $1, Thursday free.
Museum of Latin-American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA): Malba houses a permanent collection of Latin-American art that begins with the awakening of avant-garde movement of the 20th century and comes up to contemporary expressions. It includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and artists' belongings from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.www.malba.org.ar
Address: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 (Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Monday, Thursday and Friday from 12pm to 7:30pm, Wednesday 12pm to 9pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 8pm.
Price: $ 4, Wednesday from 12pm to 9pm free. Seniors, students, and minors of 12 years free.
Bs As Modern Art Museum: This museum is located in a recycled tobacco warehouse and houses a collections of Argentine plastic contemporary concretists, informalists, neofiguratives as well as the Ignacio Pirovano collection plus works of the most outstanding names of the international plastic arts.
Address: Av. San Juan 350 (San Telmo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Saturdays from 10am to 8pm, Sundays from 11am to 8pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free.
Contemporary Art Museum: It exhibits a mixed collection of contemporary Argentinean plastic art and has its own theater school. The building is an old mansion constructed between 1860 and 1870 whose facade is a replica of a house from the 18th century.
Address: Defensa 1344 (San Telmo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 3pm to 8pm.
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Museum of Plastic Arts "Eduardo Sívori": This museum exhibits masterpieces by well known artists, there are also sculptures specially selected for blind people.
Address: Av. Infanta Isabel 555 (Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 12pm to 7pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 7pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free.
Museum of Popular Art "Jose Hernández": This museum is devoted to the traditional Argentine folk patrimony and its relationship with the migratory movements. www.museohernandez.org.ar
Address: Av. del Libertador 2373 (Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Wednesday to Sunday from 1pm to 9pm.
Price: $1, Sundays free.
La Boca's Fine Arts Museum "Benito Quinquela Martin": It was inaugurated in 1936, becoming an important center of cultural influence. It exhibits more than 1.000 works, including the major collection of Benito Quinquela Martín and other remarkable artists such us: Fernando Fader, Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, Antonio Alice, Lino E. Spilimbergo, etc. There is also an interesting collection of large figureheads of old ships. An elementary school is also located in the building.
Address: Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1835 (La Boca neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5:30pm.
Price: $2
Museum of Sculptures "Luis Perlotti": This was the house and workshop of the extraordinary Argentine sculptor Luis Perlotti, whose work is characterized by his Latin Americanism subject matter.
Address: Pujol 644 (Caballito neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 7pm, Saturdays and Sundays 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 8pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free.
Yrurtia's House Museum: This was the home of Argentine sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia (1879-1950), who was the author of several monuments located throughout Buenos Aires like "Canto al trabajo" located in Av. Paseo Colón and Independencia, The mausoleum of "Bernardino Rivadavia" located in the Plaza Miserere and the Monument of Manuel Dorrego located between Viamonte and Suipacha Streets, among others.
This house-museum has furniture and paintings of prestigious Argentine contemporary painters as well as sketches and previous studies of many personalities that Yrurtia eventually made monuments of. There are also art works that belonged to his second wife, Argentine painter Lía Correa Morales.
Address: O'Higgins 2390 (Belgrano neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesdays to Fridays and Sundays from 3pm to 6pm.
Admission: $ 1
Museum, House of Carlos Gardel : Carlos Gardel bought this property on June 9, 1926 and lived here between 1927 and 1933, when he left for Paris. After his death, in 1935, the house was auctioned and years later a tango place called "Carlos Gardel's house" was inaugurated and it was opened until the eighties. It is a typical house of the beginning of the 20th century with a central court surrounded by different rooms. During the 60s, the owners knocked down several walls, which altered the original design. In 1996, businessman Eduardo Eurnekian bought the house and in 1997, a presidential decree declared it a historical national monument. At present, this museum has rooms with the original items and reproductions that show the different periods of the life of the singer: his childhood, lovers, friends and passions.
Address: Jean Jaures 735 (Balvanera neighborhood)
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Evita Museum: This museum features memorabilia from Evita's careers as an actress and as a political leader. It also describes the story of her life and death. www.evitaperon.org.
Address: 2988 Lafinur Street (Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday through Friday from 2 pm to 7:30 pm.
Price: $1.65
Museum of the City: This museum rescues the history of the city of Buenos Aires, its architectural patrimony and the daily utensils of its habitants. The collections hoard from a button or a postal card to pieces of architecture, furniture, tiles and the most diverse elements of the daily life. It is located in a traditional building in Monserrat's neighborhood and in the ground floor it houses a drugstore "La Estrella", which preserves the original decoration and the original furniture of 1900.
Address: Alsina 412 (Monserrat neighborhood)
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 11am to 7pm, Sundays from 3pm to 7pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free.
Museum of the Cinema: It is dedicated to Argentine cinema and its patrimony is shaped by the first cameras and projectors, with moviolas, wardrobes, equipment, models, sketches, awards and personal belongings of actresses, actors and movie directors.
Address: Defense 1220 (San Telmo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 7pm, Saturday and Sundays from 11:30am to 6:30pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free
Museum of the National Institute of Anthropology and Latin-American
Thinking: This Museum houses collections of archaeology, ethnography and traditional crafts from Argentina, Latin America, Europe and Africa. It
has
guided visits and it carries itinerant exhibitions and training
courses.
Address: 3 de Febrero 1370/78 (Belgrano neighborhood)
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 10am to 7pm.
Price: Free.
National Historical Museum: It holds the major exhibition of the country's history objects, furniture of illustrious men, weapons, suits, portraits, national symbols and pictorial scenes of the great battles and of decisive facts of Argentine history that illustrate the struggle to survive and to obtain the independence from Spain.
Address: Defensa 1600 (San Telmo neighborhood)
Schedule: Wednesday to Friday and Sundays from 2pm to 6pm.
Price: Free.
National Decorative Art Museum: This private palace of neoclassic
style, belonged to Matías Errázuriz and his
wife Josefina de Alvear and it was constructed in 1911 by the French
architect René Sergent inspired by the artistic ideas of France
of the XVIII century. In 1937 it was acquired by the National Government
and was turned into a museum. At present it houses
collections of utensils, ancient furniture, Andalusian
tapestries, porcelains, ivories, silverwork, glassware and works
of art of the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicist times.
Address: Av. Libertador ( Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday from 2pm to 7pm.
Price: $2, Tuesday free.
National Fine
Arts Museum: It is one of the most important centers of
art exhibitions in the country and houses the most
significant collection of paintings of the 19th and 20th century by
Argentine and foreign artists such as Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Ernesto de la
Cárcova, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Rodin, Picasso, Kandinsky, Miró,
Sívori, Castagnino, de la Cárcova, Quinquela Martín and Soldi among others. It
holds rooms devoted to painting,
sculpture and tapestry of the pre-renaissance, impressionism and
postmodernism times and it is also considered the most important library of the country specialized
in art topics. Around the museum there are gardens with interesting sculptures
like: Hercules, The archer, El Ultimo Centauro and La
Cautiva .www.mnba.org.ar
Address: Avenida del Libertador 1473 (La Recoleta neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 12:30pm to 7:30pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays from 9:30am to 7:30pm.
Price: Free.
Mitre Museum: It is one of the oldest houses of Buenos Aires. Bartolomé Mitre rented it in 1860, until it was given as a present by the local people to him in 1868, at the end of his term as president. When he received the property, the house was one story high. Later the upper floor was constructed consisting of a bedroom, a bath and a private office, a file, a library with more than 40.000 volumes, exclusively devoted to history and geography on the Americas, documents on General San Martín's and General Belgrano and documents related to the British Invasions. The 18th century house has original elements remaining in the walls, carpentries, iron-works and gratings in the front of the house.
Address: San Martín 336 (San Nicolás neighborhood) (Financial district- The City)
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 12pm to 6pm.
Price: $1
Historical Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution: The museum houses an exhibition of furniture, personal belongings and the Cabildo officers and of the First Patriotic Board, as well as iconographic documents with historical maps on the British invasions and the Town Council Meeting of May 22, 1810.
Address: Bolívar 65 (San Telmo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 12:30pm to 7pm, Sundays from 3pm to 7pm.
Price: Free.
Sarmiento
Historical Museum: The old Municipality house was originally
located here. It was designed by the Architect Juan
A. Buschiazzo in front of the General Belgrano plaza on the centennial of Sarmiento's
death, in 1938.
The museum shows personal belongings from Domingo Faustino Sarmiento,
Nicolás Avellaneda and from some of the congressmen who were present at Belgrano's Congress in 1880. The books, furniture, diplomas, letters,
cutlery,
oils, sculptures, paintings, miniatures and other items which accompanied Sarmiento along his
life, were donated by their grandchildren.
Address: Juramento 2180 (Belgrano neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm.
Price: $1.
Cornelio Saavedra Historical Museum: The daily life of Buenos Aires of the 19th century is recreated in several rooms inside this building. Coins, weapons, pictures, paintings and other pieces of the Rosas era comprise this notable collection.
Address: Crisólogo Larralde 6309 (Saavedra neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 9pm to 6pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 8pm.
Price: $1, Wednesday free.
Casa Rosada Museum: It was opened in
1957
in the basement of the Casa Rosada.
It houses a collection of objects that belonged to different
presidents of Argentina that include:
presidential canes, letters, decorations, military apparel, desks of
oaths, knifes, guns, flags, coins, cigar-cases, drawings and
an innumerable other objects.
Also, the museum houses a Library, File and Newspaper library with
17 thousand volumes specialized in the History of Argentina related to the
presidents.
www.museo.gov.ar
Address: Hipólito Yrigoyen 219 (San Nicolás neighborhood)
Schedule: Monday from Friday to 10am to 6pm and Sundays from 2pm to 6pm.
Price: Free.
Ricardo Rojas House: Ricardo Rojas was an
eminent essayist, poet, playwright, speaker and politician. In 1957 he donated
to the national government his work as well as his colonial style house
containing elegant furniture, works of art and valuable objects. The
house turned into a museum in April 28, 1958 and was declared
Historical National Museum. It holds religious paintings, monks'
chairs, and an office with bronze chandeliers. It also has Gral. San Martín
memorabilia, documents and ancient books.
Address: Charcas 2837 (Palermo neighborhood)
Schedule: Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 5pm.
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Naval Museum of the Nation (Tigre): This museum was founded in 1892 by the
Naval Center and it exhibits Sail Ships, Steam ships, modern warships,
instruments of navigation, documents, weapons and naval uniforms. More
than 200 scale model of planes of the navy
are in exhibition, as well as old weapons and ancient
cartography.
Address: Paseo Victoria 602, Tigre
Schedule: Monday to Thursday from 8am to 12:30 pm, Friday 8am to 5:30pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 to 6:30 pm.
Price: $2.
Sarmiento
Museum (Tigre): Located at 35 minutes by boat from the port,
this was Sarmiento's house during his vacations in the Delta.
It was declared Historical National Monument, and it was restored and is being
protected with glass to avoid deterioration.
Address: Sarmiento Over the River , Tigre
Schedule: Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.
Price: Free.
Museum of the Reconquista: This museum is located in front of the historical place where on August 4, 1806 Santiago de Liniers landed to reconquer the city of Buenos Aires from the hands of British troops. The museum exhibits uniforms of the time of the Reconquest of Buenos Aires as well as documents and weapons. Other rooms are dedicated to the history of the Tigre and the parochial Church.
Address: P. Castañeda 470, Tigre.
Schedule: Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.
Price: Free.
Argentina Coast Guard Museum: This museum holds six rooms dedicated to institutional history; iconography; control of damage and fire; uniforms; communications, salvage and scuba-diving; navigation and aviation; weapons and explosives.
Address: Av. Liniers 1264, Tigre
Schedule: Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm.
Price: Free.