In Buenos Aires, we combine different cultures that are highlighted through various artistic samples; each expressing what it means culture in our city.
The tour begins with the National Museum of Fine Arts then we went to the Museum of Latin American Art, and finally to the National Museum of Decorative Art.
National Museum of
Fine Arts
This museum, approximately 9,200 sq metres and with almost 10,000 works of art has permanently a sample of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and another sector in which outlines various works of foreign artists.
Museum of Latin American Art
It was founded in September 2001 to study, preserve and disseminate the Latin American art since the early twentieth century until today.
National Museum of Decorative Art
Built at its inception in 1937, as the residence of the family of Josefina De Alvear and her husband Matias Errázuriz Ortúzar.
Both families arrived at Americas in the eighteenth century. The Errázuriz settled in Chile, counting among its member’s presidents, politicians, businessmen and academics of great influence in Chilean society. Meanwhile, Alvear, based in Argentina, had an outstanding performance in the political and social since the late eighteenth century.
Josefina de Alvear and Matias Errázuriz Ortúzar Chilean diplomat, married in the cathedral in Buenos Aires on April 23, 1897.