|
MUSEUMS |
Buenos Aires offers their people and the tourists important museums of national and international art as well as football museums, shoes museums, puppets museums, costumes museums, among others.
One of the newest museums founded in the city is Malba: Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires. This museum exhibits artworks made by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Tarsilia do Amaral, Wilfredo Lam and the main Argentine artists.
The Evita Museum possesses testimonies of this emblematic figure of the Argentine history. Her full name was María Eva Duarte.
In Retiro, the Fernández Blanco Museum is located at the Noel Palace. This building has a typical neoclassical style of the 20’s. This museum exhibits one of the major silverware collections in the world that dates from colonial times.
The Spanish art, mainly of centuries 16º and 17º, is gathered at the Larreta Museum. The Larreta Museum is located in an old country house in Belgrano neighborhood with an Andalusian style garden of 7,000 square meters.
The Argentine popular art can be seen at the José Hernández Museum. This museum collection includes more than 8,000 art objects which represents the old and contemporaneous Argentine handcrafts.
|
