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Buenos Aires Museums
Buenos Aires is a museum buff's delight. The
city boasts dozens of museums with collections
dedicated to art, both classical and pop, sculp-
ture, history, weapons, coins, science and the-
ater, to name but a few. The city proudly
upholds her reputation for classical art.
We discuss
many museums,
but by no means
cover them all.
Hours and
phone numbers
were accurate at
press time, but
double-check
them before set-
ting out since
they have a ten-
dency to change!
Did You Know?
Buenos Aires was also the first city in
Latin America to host an exhibition of
pop art by Andy Warhol.
Just as Paris was a center for scores of expatri-
ate artists, Buenos Aires could boast of her own
Delacroix - Prilidiano Pueyrredón , a major
figure whose vast historical tableaus tell the
colonial history of Argentina and resurrect
from the ashes the visages of the haughty and
handsome nobility of her early years.
In recent years art in Argentina has taken on a
more embattered sensibility. This feeling is
most evident in the art of Urruchua , a member
of the old school of moderns who paints with his
Basque patriotism on the tip of his brush. In a
great number of Argentinean artists, this
embattlement has its source in the nation's
troubled history. The influx of immigrant art-
ists, including a large number of Asians, has
added a new dimension to the cultural scene.
Buenos Aires has a wonderful collection of
sculpture, both small and monumental in size,
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