Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires houses one of Latin America’s most significant art collections, featuring works from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.

Planning your visit

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes holds the most significant art collection in Latin America, and its European holdings are the surprise: El Greco, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens, Manet, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin and Picasso, assembled largely through donations from the Argentine elite during the decades when Buenos Aires was among the wealthiest cities in the world.

The Argentine collection is the more distinctive half — nineteenth-century painting including Cándido López, who lost his right arm in the Paraguayan War and taught himself to paint with his left, producing panoramic battle scenes of extraordinary detail; through to Berni, Xul Solar and the twentieth century.

Admission is free.

It sits in Recoleta near the cemetery and the Floralis Genérica, the giant steel flower that opens and closes. Bookable options combine the museum with El Ateneo, the bookshop in a converted theatre. Allow two hours. Current availability is listed below.