Half Day Museums Tour
Tour length: 3 Hs

Departure from the hotel to visit 2 museums chosen among the most representative of different aspects and periods of Argentine art and culture.
This is a “tailor-made” visit for each passenger to see the forms of art that he prefers.
The recommend museums are: Museum of Spanish American Art  Isaac Fernández Blanco, Museum of Argentine Folk Heritage José Hernández, National Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Decorative Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), recently inaugurated.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH AMERICAN ART ISAAC FERNANDEZ BLANCO
1422 Suipacha St.
Tel: (54 11)4327 0272
Tuesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm

The museum is located in the Noel Palace built in Neocolonial style, representative of the ´20s, with gardens of Spanish inspiration.
Its cultural assets of Spanish American colonial art are considered among the most important in the continent and are famous all over the world.
It has a wide collection of colonial silverware that gathers dazzling objects from Alto Perú, Perú and the Río de la Plata; paintings from the Alto Perú and Cuzco; furniture from the 17th and 18th centuries; Jesuit imagery and objects of decorative art.
Different workshops and temporary shows are frequently organized.

MUSEUM OF ARGENTINE FOLK HERITAGE JOSE HERNANDEZ
2373 Libertador Av.
Tel: (54 11) 4802 7294
Wednesday to Friday from 1 PM to 7 PM
Saturday and Sunday from 3 PM to 8 PM

The museum is placed in a typical family residence in Palermo Chico neighborhood, which was donated to the city  by its owner, Mr. Félix Bunge. Its current aspect is the result of a refurbishment  done by the beginning of the 20th century.
The museum is devoted to the preservation of the testimonies from the multiple variants of the Argentine folkloric and traditional heritage and to make known its relation to the large migratory movements.
The museum houses about 8,000 objects representative of the Creole and aborigine traditions; conventionally classified as pottery, leather, vegetable fiber, wood, horn and bone, gourd, silverware, imagery, masks, musical instruments, textiles, glass and porcelain, stone and iron. They evoke the rural past and the origins of the Argentine nation.
The museum also holds paintings and engravings, as well as blade and fire weapons. It also has a collection of 2000 photographs; and an important library containing 13.000 books.
Since 1980, the Center of Handicrafts Promotion is placed here too, devoted to make known the Argentine handicrafts to assure its preservation within the cultural assets of the aborigines.
Handicrafts of great cultural value can be bought here.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
1473 Libertador Av.
Tel: (54 11)4803 0802
Tuesday to Friday from 12.30 PM to 7.30 PM
Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 7 PM

This museum has a total of 40 halls devoted not only to Argentine art but also to show masterpieces of famous plastic artists from all over the world such as: El Greco, Goya, Van Gogh, Manet, Renoir and Picasso and many others representatives of the main modern and contemporary artistic movements.
The tour will focus in the halls devoted to the Argentine painting, showing masterpieces produced by the most representative artists in our country from 1830 to 1990.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ART
1902 Libertador Av.
Tel: (54 11) 4806 8306
Tuesday to Sunday from 2 PM  to 7 PM

This museum is placed in the Errázuriz Palace, a beautiful residence built in French style at the beginning of the 20th century and that was declared “Artistic-Historical Heritage” in 1998.
The current assets of the museum are over 4,000 objects, that go from Roman sculptures to contemporary silverware. The most important attraction is the collection of paintings and objects  of European and Oriental Decorative art, and European miniatures of the period that goes from the 16th to 19th century, most of them belonging to the Errázuriz Alvear family.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
350 San Juan Av.
Tel: (54 11) 4361 1121
Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 8 PM
Sunday and holidays from 11 am to 8 PM

Its main quarters, in the traditional and historical neighborhood of San Telmo, is a modern architecturally remodeled building that used to be and old tobacco warehouse.
The museum houses its own collections of contemporary Argentine art -concretists, informalists, neo-figurativists; along with the most outstanding names of the international fine arts.
Exhibitions of painting, engraving, sculpture, photography, graphic design, among other artistic manifestations, are frequently held at this museum.
Some courses, and cinema and video exhibitions are also organized.

MALBA MUSEUM
3415 Figueroa Alcorta Av.
Tel: (54 11) 4808 6556
Monday to Friday (except from Tuesday) from 12 PM to 8 PM
Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 8 PM

The MALBA -Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires-becomes part of the cultural patrimony of Buenos Aires as the first museum of the 21st century. It has a rich patrimony, with modern infrastructure and with wide cultural schedule. Its multicultural origin is owed to the characteristics of the Constantini Collection- the MALBA's permanent collection-, of the temporary exhibitions and of its cultural activities.
Constantini's is the first Latin American art collection in Argentina, and one of the most important ones in the world. With 222 masterpieces up to this days, it shows the development of Latin American painting and sculpture all throughout the 20th century. Although some preceding artists are included, the collection starts chronologically with the awakening of the Latin American vanguards in the second decade of the 20th, an essential outcome for the transformation and affirmation of art in this region.
The collection gathers important masterpieces that allow us to observe clearly the combinations between the different action courses of countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia and Chile.