National Museum of Fine Arts (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Argentina's national art museum, holding European masters and the country's largest public collection.
Argentina's national art museum opened in December 1896 in the Bon Marché building on Calle Florida, moved to the Pabellón Argentino in 1911, and settled into its present home in 1933. The building began life as a pumping station for the city's waterworks and was adapted by the architect Alejandro Bustillo, who stripped back the industrial brickwork and added the ochre-red façade and skylit galleries that visitors see on Avenida del Libertador today.
The collection numbers some 12,000 works and is among the largest in Latin America. European holdings range from El Greco, Rubens and Goya to Manet, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Rodin, whose bronzes stand in the ground-floor rooms. The Argentine galleries trace the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Cándido López, Eduardo Sívori, Fernando Fader, Xul Solar and Antonio Berni. A library, an auditorium and a temporary exhibitions pavilion complete the site, which marked its 130th anniversary in 2026.
Highlights
- Rodin bronzes and a deep nineteenth-century French painting collection
- Cándido López's panoramic canvases of the Paraguayan War
- Building adapted from a waterworks pumping station by Alejandro Bustillo
- Twentieth-century Argentine rooms with Xul Solar and Antonio Berni
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