Museo Benito Quinquela Martín

Description

In 1933 Benito Quinquela Martín donated to the State a piece of land owned by him in order to build a building for a primary school, a Museum of Argentine Artists and a space for the artist's home and workshop. On July 19, 1936, the Pedro de Mendoza School was inaugurated, combining art and pedagogy in order to improve the perceptive and learning abilities of children. Quinquela Martín made eighteen murals inside the building. Two years later, the Museum of Argentine Artists opened its doors in the same building. The representative collection of the history of national art is made up of works by Argentine figurative artists from the end of the 19th century to the present day. It also includes a collection of figureheads, unique in Latin America, represented by interesting pieces from the late nineteenth century. In the Sívori room, there are temporary exhibitions of great masters of Argentine art, renowned contemporary creators and emerging artists; linking contemporary production with patrimonial works. On the third floor is the House - Museum of Benito Quinquela Martín, where his great works and personal objects are exhibited.