Museums in Buenos Aires

15 places our drivers recommend.

• MALBA · The Latin American art museum: Frida Kahlo, Berni, Kuitca and a landmark building.
• Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBA) · The city's modern art museum, in a converted tobacco warehouse on Avenida San Juan.
• MACBA · Contemporary art in a sharp modern building, right across from MAMBA.
• Fundación Proa · A contemporary art space on the old port waterfront of La Boca, with a rooftop cafe.
• Usina del Arte · A power station turned concert hall and arts centre, with one of the best acoustics in the city.
• Museo Xul Solar · The private universe of Xul Solar, in the house where he invented languages, games and worlds.
• Museo Evita · The life of Eva Perón told in the mansion that once housed her foundation.
• Museo de la Inmigración · The old Hotel de Inmigrantes, where most Argentine families begin their story.
• Museo de Arte Decorativo · A Belle Époque palace on Avenida Libertador, kept as its owners left it.
• Colón Fábrica · Seven and a half thousand square metres in La Boca where the Teatro Colón stores and shows the sets, costumes, wigs and effects built in its own workshops.
• Museo Benito Quinquela Martín · Founded in 1938 in a building Quinquela Martín designed and gave to his own neighbourhood, with his studio and home upstairs and a hall of ships' figureheads.
• Museo Fernández Blanco (Palacio Noel) · One of the world's leading collections of colonial Spanish American art, in the 1920s neocolonial house the architect Martín Noel built for himself.
• Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta · The writer Enrique Larreta's neocolonial mansion in Belgrano, opened as a museum in 1962, with his fifteenth to seventeenth century Spanish art and a five thousand square metre Andalusian garden.
• Museo Casa Rosada · Built into the recovered galleries of the Taylor Customs House on the exact site of the old fort of Buenos Aires, and home to Siqueiros' mural Ejercicio Plástico.
• Museo de Arte Tigre · A museum opened in 2006 in the former Tigre Club, a French and Italian style building raised for a rowing club and a European style casino, and a national historic monument since 1979.