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Museo de Escultura
Museo de Escultura is an open-air workshop on the north side of Parque 2 de Febrero. Several of the most impressive sculptures created for every Bienal festival are on display here, and this is where, during the Bienal, and quite frequently at other times, you can catch sculptors a
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Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández
This museum was being remodelled at research time, but the emphasis here is on both traditional and contemporary arts and crafts, mostly from Argentina. Expect to see intricate gaucho-related silverwork like knives and mate sets, Mapuche textiles like ponchos and folk crafts from t
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Tumba de Malacara
Horse lovers can pay their respects at this monument holding the remains of Malacara, a brave horse whose swift retreat saved its owner’s hide. Town founder John Evans escaped with Malacara from murder-bent Araucanians, who were retaliating for an attack by the Argentine army durin
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Convento de San Francisco
This colonial monastery dates from the city’s founding, and has a small colonnade modeled on Bernini’s at St Peter’s in Rome. Its been rather nicely restored but only opens for mass.
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Museo de la Ciudad/Museo de Bellas Artes
The city makes a big effort rehabilitating old buildings for cultural ends. This complex is the most recent effort: the art gallery shows temporary exhibits while the city museums display of historical items and photos is beautifully curated though not of massive interest. The bea
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Museo Arqueológico Eric Boman
On one corner of the plaza, Museo Arqueológico Eric Boman has a worthwhile collection of ceramics plus gold and silver grave jewelry from this important archaeological zone. Ask to see the back room, where elaborately decorated funerary urns are stored. An artesanía cooperative nex
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Museo Casa Carlos Gardel
Small but noteworthy is this tribute to tangos most famous voice. Located in Gardel’s old house, this museum traces his partnership with José Razzano and displays old memorabilia like photos, records and news clippings. There isn’t a whole lot to see, so it’s best for real fans or
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Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
The centerpiece of this gleaming white colonial church, built by Jesuits in 1716, is a Peruvian altar adorned with silver from Argentina’s northwest. Inside, head to the left to visit the small but historic cloisters museum; it’s home to religious vestments, paintings, writings and
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Museo Yamaná
Small but carefully tended, this museum has an excellent overview of the Yahgan (Yámana) way of life. It delves into their survival in harsh weather without clothing, why only women swam and how campfires were kept in moving canoes. Expertly detailed dioramas (also in English) show
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Museo de la Vid y El Vino
This impressive museum gives a good introduction to the area’s wine industry. The atmospheric first section, which deals with the viticultural side – the life of the vines – through a series of poems and images, is particularly appealing. The second part covers the winemaking side,
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Museo Xul Solar
Xul Solar was a painter, inventor, poet and friend of Jorge Luis Borges. This museum (located in his old mansion) showcases over 80 of his unique and colorful yet subdued paintings. Solar’s Klee-esque style includes fantastically themed, almost cartoonish figures placed in surreal
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Museo Historico Kami
If you make one stop in Tolhuin, check out this museum, especially worthwhile for Spanish speakers. A former 1920s police post, the little house is now dedicated to regional history, starting with the Selknam. One exhibit documents community members’ stories of the still-recent pio
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Faena Arts Center
This very large, airy art space – in a beautifully renovated flour mill – highlights the contemporary dreams of local and international artists and designers. You should expect the most cutting-edge exhibits that utilize these spaces to the maximum – think rope nets hanging from th
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Cueva de las Manos
The incredible rock art of Cueva de las Manos was proclaimed a Unesco World Heritage site in 1999. Dating from about 7370 BC, these polychrome rock paintings cover recesses in the near-vertical walls with imprints of human hands, drawings of guanacos and, from a later period, abstr
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Nuestra Señora de Loreto
Loreto, founded in 1632, has few visible remains but is atmospheric. Theres ongoing restoration, but the jungle is king here again and it’s difficult to interpret the tumbled mossy stones among the trees, so the free guided tour is worthwhile. It was one of the more important missi
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario
Housed in a brightly painted grain silo on the waterfront, this is part of Rosario’s impressive riverbank renewal. It features temporary exhibitions, mostly by young local artists, of varying quality, housed in small galleries spread over eight floors. There’s a good view of river
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Centro de Interpretación
The Centro de Interpretación, 22km beyond the entrance of Reserva Faunística Península Valdés, focuses on natural history, displays a full right whale skeleton and has material on the peninsula’s colonization, from the area’s first Spanish settlement at Fuerte San José to later min
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Museo del Puerto
Housed in a colorfully painted former customs building, this small but engaging museum is a tribute to the region’s immigrants. The rooms include archives and photographs, and mock-ups of an old peluquería (barber shop) and bar. The historical collection starts in the yard outside,
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El Molino
This broke-down beauty, reminiscent of Paris’ Moulin Rouge, was once an elegant cafe where politicians socialized between meetings at Palacio del Congreso. Sadly, the striking art-nouveau corner building is now covered in cobwebs after closing in 1996. Conservation teams struggle t
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Inti Huasi Cave
This wide, shallow cave, whose name means ‘house of the sun’ in Quechua, makes an interesting stop, as much for the gorgeous surrounding countryside as the cave itself. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the cave was first inhabited by the Ayampitín some 8000 years ago.There are regu
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