4 Must-See Museums in Buenos Aires

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Fundación Proa
~2 min

Fundación Proa

Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929, La Boca, Buenos Aires

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Fundación Proa is a contemporary art museum at the edge of La Boca — a converted Italian-Argentine house with a minimalist glass-and-steel extension that hosts exhibitions of international contemporary art at a level of ambition that rivals institutions many times its size.

MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)
~2 min

MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)

3415 Avenida Presidente Figueroa Alcorta, Comuna 14, Buenos Aires, C1425, Argentina

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MALBA is Latin America's most important contemporary art museum — a geometric glass-and-stone building in Palermo housing the Costantini collection of over 600 works by Latin American artists from the early 20th century to the present.

Museo de Arte Decorativo
~2 min

Museo de Arte Decorativo

1902 Avenida Del Libertador, Comuna 14, Buenos Aires, C1425, Argentina

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The Museo de Arte Decorativo occupies one of the most beautiful private residences ever built in Buenos Aires — a French Beaux-Arts palace designed by René Sergent in 1917 for the Errázuriz-Alvear family, filled with their collection of European decorative arts, and donated to the Argentine state in 1937.

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Av. del Libertador 1473, Recoleta, Buenos Aires

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The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is Argentina's most important art museum — a neoclassical building in Recoleta housing a collection of over 12,000 works that ranges from medieval European art through Impressionism to contemporary Argentine painting, with a particular strength in 19th-century French and Argentine art that reflects the historical relationship between the two countries.

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