"General Brigadier Cornelio de Saavedra" Historical Museum of the City of Buenos Aires

Crisólogo Larralde 6309
Tel. 4572-0746
Open Tuesdays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Holidays: February

A large house dating back to 1870 - the old farm-house on the lands belonging to Luis María Saavedra - has become the Museum center, aimed at evoking life in the 18th and 19th centuries, and inaugurated on May 25, 1942. The park and a lake are the setting for three pavilions, the principal of which is located in the restored house with its attractive tiles from the Province of Salta and its iron railings. One of these railings, painted pale blue and boasting an inscription that says "Long live the Nation", belonged to the house of a barrack master from Buenos Aires, by the name of San Martín, killed in the battle of Chacabuco.
The Ricardo Zemborain room contains and exhibition of silverwork (gourds, straws ("bombillas"), mate pots, jugs, etc., while the Saavedra room reproduces the atmosphere of the period (piano, harp, candelabra, a large chandelier). Particularly interesting is the room containing an exhibition of large high combs, presided by an oil portrait of the manufacturer, Manuel Mateo Masculino, who introduced the Sevillian fashion of the high comb when he settled in Buenos Aires in 1820.
The Museum also houses rooms on Military History ; silver work from the Pampas ; the Argentine Confederation; Numismatics; Fashion documents and letters belonging to San Martín and Lavalle, and excellent water-colour paintings by the painter Leonie Mathis, that recreate the development of the City of Buenos Aires.