Museum of Engraving

Defensa 372
Tel. 4345-5300
Open Mondays through Fridays from 2p.m. to 6p.m.
Holidays: February

This Museum artistic wealth includes some 15,000 works by Argentine and foreign contemporary artists such as Bracque, Picasso, Dalí, Delaunay, Siqueiros, Miró, Pettoruti, Seguí, Alonso, Audivert, Forner, Seoane. Its founder was Professor Oscar Carlos Pécora, who created the museum in 1960 and presented it as a gift to the State in 1979. Different engraving techniques can be appreciated, such as embossing xylography (the most ancient technique, made on a wooden matrix) linoleum block printing; intaglio (on metal plates); without mordant (drypoint or burin engraving on metal or acrylic plates); with mordant (acid, including etching, aquatint, etc.) mixed techniques (photoengraving, xerography, mimeography, heliography, airbrushing); collage line engraving; lithography and serigraphy (on a frame, with a metal or silk screen). All these techniques are propagated particularly through exhibitions organised in different sites.