La Noche de Los Museos is a yearly Buenos Aires cultural extravaganza where it seems virtually every door in the city is swung open, inviting visitors to wander through to take in some art and culture. Every year, tens of thousands take to the streets to visit museums, galleries and even government and private historic […]
Buenos Aires Shoah Museum: The Holocaust’s Echo in Argentina
The Buenos Aires Shoah Museum, the only of its kind in Latin America, serves as a museum, memorial and moral reminder by telling the story of the Holocaust and its impact in Argentina and wider South America. The museum is supported through the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, and was declared a ‘Site of Cultural Interest’ by […]
La Plata: Places of Interest
The La Plata Museum is one of South America’s most important Natural History museums. Modeled after important European museums, construction began in 1884 and took four years to complete. Permanent exhibitions include rooms dedicated to anthropology, archeology, paleontology, zoology, evolution and even an Egyptian hall with hieroglyphs, ceramics and ancient coffins. Yet another hall is […]
The Munich Brewery/Humor Museum of Buenos Aires
Puerto Madero’s Humor Museum (MUHU) celebrates everything to do with Argentine humor with exhibitions featuring graphic and political art, comic strips and animation, shown in their small cinema. The permanent collection spans almost two centuries of Argentine humor beginning with a 1834 lithograph series by César Hipólito Bacle, ‘Costumes and Customs of Buenos Ayres,’ satirizing […]
Dining, Shopping and Travel Info — San Antonio de Areco
When to go: Any fair day is a good day to go to San Antonio de Areco. The ideal time to visit though is during the gaucho festival, which celebrates the ‘Day of the Gaucho’ on the 10th of November. Gauchos and their horses from all over Argentina come galloping through the cobbled streets to […]