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Museo de Bellas Artes de La Boca Quinquela Martin Review
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Museo de Bellas Artes de La Boca Quinquela Martín
- Address: Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1835, La Boca, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
- Phone: 11/4301-1080
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Quinquela Martin Fine Arts Museum of Argentine Artists
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: La Boca
Fodor's Review:
Artist and philanthropist Benito Quinquela Martín, one of La Boca's most famous sons, donated this huge building to the state to create a cultural center in 1936. Don't be surprised to have to jostle your way through kids filing into class: downstairs is an elementary school, something that the galleries' bland institutional architecture doesn't let you forget. Quinquela Martín set out to fill the second floor with Argentine art -- on the condition that works were figurative and didn't belong to any 'ism.' Badly lit rooms and lack of any visible organization make it hard to enjoy the minor paintings by Berni, Sívori, Soldi, and other local masters. The smaller third floor contains only Quinquela Martín's own work, namely the vibrant port scenes that first put La Boca on the map. Outside is a huge sculpture terrace with great views of the river and old port buildings on one side; and the Boca Juniors stadium and low-rise downtown skyline on the other. Signs about the history of the museum are translated into English, but nothing else is.
- Cost: 3 pesos
- Open: Tues.-Fri. 10-5, weekends 11-5
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