Museums in San Telmo

Museo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
- Address: Alsina 412
  Phone: 4343-2123 / 4331-9855
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  Web: www.museos.buenosaires.gov.ar/ciudad.htm
The Museo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Museum of the City of Buenos Aires) was created in 1968. It is currently located in an area that includes buildings from different periods in the Montserrat district. The Museum's ... More Info
Museo Nacional de la Historia del Traje
- Address: Chile 832
  Phone: 4343-8427
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  Web: www.funmuseodeltraje.com.ar
The museum is located in a house that dates back to 1907, which was constructed with brick masonry on foundations made of "tierra romana" (a mix of lime, shells, brick dust and sand.) It is a typical "casa chorizo" ("sausage ... More Info
Museo Histórico Nacional
- Address: Defensa 1600
  Phone: 4307-4457 / 3157 / 2301
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  Web: www.cultura.gov.ar/direcciones/?info=organismo&id=14&idd=5
A field glass belonging to Beresford and San Martín's sword, Belgrano's watch and the flag of Ayohuma, an oil painting of Manuelita Rosas by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Sobremonte's bed, the uniform worn by Güemes, oil paintings ... More Info
Museo Argentino del Títere
- Address: Piedras 905
  Phone: 4304-4376 / 4343-0601
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  Web: www.museoargdeltitere.com.ar
It was created in 1986 by Mane Bernardo y Sarah Bianchi, in order to document the activity of puppeteers. It includes over six hundred puppets which are organized on display according to their origin and technique. The ... More Info
Museo Nacional de Grabado
- Address: Defensa 372
  Phone: 4345-5300
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  Web: www.cultura.gov.ar/direcciones/?info=organismo&id=16&idd=5
The Museo del Grabado (Museum of Engravings) was opened in 1960 as a private collection by Professor Oscar Carlos Pecora and was the first museum exclusively dedicated to this kind of work. Years later, this important ... More Info
Academia Nacional del Tango
- Address: Avenida de Mayo 829
  Phone: 4345-6967
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  Web: www.anacdeltango.org.ar
The Academia Nacional del Tango is located on the first, second and third floors of the former Unzué Palace. The first floor includes the rooms Pascual Contursi, Ángel Villoldo, Carlos Vega, Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, ... More Info
Museo de la Emigracion Gallega - MEGA
- Address: Chacabuco 955
  Phone: 4362-5963
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The Museum display cabinets show a hundred objects, photographs, documents, life stories, literary works, objects, musical instruments and pictorial art work belonging to this community, which is one of the most important in ... More Info
Museo Penitenciario Argentino
- Address: Humberto Primo 378
  Phone: 4361-0917 int. 207
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This museum was inaugurated in 1980 and is located in a building from the 18th century, which has been used since then as a mental asylum, a powder magazine and a women's jail. In its rooms you will see weapons, uniforms ... More Info
Museo Mundial del Tango
- Address: Rivadavia 830
  Phone: 4345-6967 / 68
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  Web: www.anacdeltango.org.ar/museo.asp
Horacio Ferrer\'s poetic phrase at the inauguration of this Museum is a beautiful description of this establishment: \"a place for tango muses, created by the people and dedicated to the people, where so much heart and ... More Info
Museo de Arte Moderno
- Address: San Juan 350
  Phone: 4361-1121
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  Web: www.museos.buenosaires.gov.ar/mam.htm
It used to be a brick building used as a tabacco deposit by Piccardo company. Today it is a modern building of recycled architecture. This museum is dedicated to those who prefer contemporary art and avant-garde trends. The ... More Info
Museo de Calcos y Escultura Comparada
- Address: Avda España 1701
  Phone: 4361- 4419
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  Web: www.iuna.edu.ar/departamentos/carcova/index.html
The museum is the most important and extensive for its genre in South America. It´s also the oldest. The value of its collection resides in the quality of the reproductions that it houses. The pieces on exhibit in its old ... More Info
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken
- Address: Defensa 1220
  Phone: 4361-2462
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  Web: www.museodelcine.gov.ar
Museum located in the old \"chorizo\"(\"sausage\") house where the Iggam factory used to operate. You will find objects related to the development of Argentine cinema from 1896 to present: the first camaras and projectors, ... More Info
Museo Iglesia San Pedro González Telmo
- Address: Humberto Primo 340
  Phone: 4361-1168
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  Web: www.iglesiasantelmo.galeon.com/
The vestry of this old temple exhibits Las Sibilas, a set of twelve oil paintings that represent 12 fortune-tellers of classic mythology that make prophecies on the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lucky visitors will see ... More Info
Museo de la Caricatura Severo Vaccaro
- Address: Lima 1073
  Phone: 4304-6497
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  Web: guasa.ya.com/museodehumor/vaccarohis2.htm
Severo Vaccaro: as a kid he was a "canillita" (in Buenos Aires, a boy that distributes and sells newspapers on the street); when he was older he became a "sales manager" for the magazine "Caras y Caretas." As the story goes, ... More Info
Museo Etnográfico Juan B. Ambrosetti
- Address: Moreno 350
  Phone: 4331-7788 / 4345-8196 / 97
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  Web: www.museoetnografico.filo.uba.ar
The Museo Etnográfico (Ethnographic Museum), which was created in 1904 by the School of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires, has a wide variety of collections, displayed in an immpressive arrangement ... More Info
Museo Tecnológico Eduardo Latzina
- Address: Paseo Colón 650
  Phone: 433-15249
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  Web: www.aeok.org.ar/museo/
The museum is located in the “Otto Krause” (Otto Krause Industrial School.) It was named after its creator and organizer, the second principal of the School. The display cabinets contain models, panels and charts which ... More Info