Casa Rosada Museum
Presidential history shown in the excavated vaults of the old Taylor Customs House.
The museum was created in 1957 to record the work of Argentine presidents, taking in each administration thirty years after it ends. Its collection runs to several thousand objects, among them presidential sashes and batons, furniture, decorations, carriages and portraits. The permanent display is arranged chronologically from 1806 onwards, through the confederal experiments of Rivadavia, Rosas, Urquiza and Derqui, the nation-building presidencies of Mitre, Sarmiento and Avellaneda, the conservative order after 1880, the Radical presidencies and the instability of the 1930s and 1940s.
In 2011 the museum moved into new galleries built around the excavated brick vaults of the Taylor Customs House, designed by the English architect Edward Taylor and completed in 1857, together with remains of the colonial Fort of Buenos Aires. The same works brought in Ejercicio Plástico, the mural painted in 1933 by a team led by the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, which is shown in a purpose-built chamber. The museum stands beside the Casa Rosada itself and admission is free.
Highlights
- Excavated vaults of the 1857 Taylor Customs House
- Siqueiros's 1933 mural Ejercicio Plástico in its own chamber
- Presidential sashes, batons, carriages and state furniture
- Remains of the colonial Fort of Buenos Aires beneath the site
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