Evita Fine Arts Museum (Palacio Ferreyra)
Beaux-Arts palace of 1916 converted into the province's fine arts museum, with twelve galleries.
The mansion was built between 1914 and 1916 for the physician and businessman Martín Ferreyra to designs by the French architect Ernest-Paul Sanson, who worked in a Beaux-Arts idiom drawn from eighteenth-century Parisian models. Known locally as the Gran Casona, it faces Plaza España on the edge of the Nueva Córdoba district. The province acquired the building in 2005, and after a conversion by GGMPU Arquitectos with Lucio Morini it opened to the public as a museum on 17 October 2007.
The conversion left the principal historic rooms intact while cutting a new vertical circulation space through the interior, linking all levels and adding contemporary galleries within the original walls. Twelve exhibition halls display the provincial fine arts collection of some five hundred works, among them pieces by Emilio Caraffa, Fernando Fader, José Malanca, Antonio Seguí and Carlos Alonso alongside European paintings. The building also contains an auditorium, a library, workshop space and gardens open to visitors.
Highlights
- Beaux-Arts mansion by the French architect Ernest-Paul Sanson
- Twelve galleries holding the provincial collection of about 500 works
- Contemporary vertical circulation cut through the historic interior
- Carlos Alonso's Manos anónimas cycle among the permanent displays
