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Best museums in Buenos Aires

14 places from 12 Buenos Aires travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.

14 places

  1. MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)

    Museum · Palermo

    Stylish museum of Latin American art, with a focus on 20th-century works.

  2. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

    Museum · Recoleta

    Argentina's national fine arts museum in Recoleta, large enough to fill several hours.

  3. Museo Evita

    Museum · Palermo

    Museum devoted to Eva Perón, the actress who became first lady and a heroine of the working class.

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  4. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia

    Museum · Caballito

    Natural science museum featuring dinosaur fossils, reflecting Argentina's fame for dinosaur discoveries. It opens daily at 2 pm.

  5. Centro Cultural Recoleta

    Museum · Recoleta

    Cultural centre in Recoleta, located next to the church that stands in front of Recoleta Cemetery.

  6. Fundación PROA

    Museum · La Boca

    Contemporary art museum in La Boca.

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8 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.

  1. Museum of Immigration (Hotel de Inmigrantes)

    Museum · Retiro

    Former immigrants' hotel near the port, built in the early 1900s and now a museum telling the story of the millions of Europeans who arrived in Argentina.

  2. Museo de Arte Tigre

    Museum · Tigre

    Art museum housed in a grand riverside building that is a work of art itself, reached by a peaceful tree-lined riverside walk.

  3. El Zanjón de Granados

    Museum · San Telmo

    Museum in San Telmo offering guided tours of a historic site.

  4. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

    Museum · San Telmo

    San Telmo's modern art museum, known as Museo Moderno.

  5. Museo Histórico Nacional

    Museum · San Telmo

    Argentina's national history museum, located in Parque Lezama.

  6. Museo del Títere

    Museum · San Telmo

    Free two-room museum full of puppets from around the world, small, quirky and little-known.

  7. Madres de Plaza de Mayo

    Museum · Balvanera

    Center of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched for children who disappeared under the 1970s–80s military dictatorship.

  8. Centro Cultural Kirchner

    Museum · San Nicolás

    Huge cultural center in the former central post office, with art exhibits on nearly all of its six or seven floors.