Museum of Modern Art

San Juan 350
Tel. 4361-1121
Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays,
Sundays and holidays from 12 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Holidays : January
Corrientes 1530 centre: 7th Floor : Library and Archives;
9th Floor: Exhibition rooms.
Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Museum premises are located in the tradicional neighbourhood of San Telmo, in a modern recycling project of an old tobacco warehouse. It houses its own collection, a wealth of contemporary Argentine plastic art - concrete, informal, neofigurative artists - Ignacio Pirovano´s collection, etc., together with works by renowned foreign plastic artists.
Created on April 11, 1956, through the efforts of Mayor Madero, the impulse given to it by Mr. Carlos Manuel Muñiz, and under the direction of Rafael Squirru, the Museum was established in the premises of the San Martín Theatre (Corrientes 1530, 9th Floor), where there is still an exhibition room and the library and archives on the 7th Floor.
Its wealth brought together instances of the most diverse expressions of plastic art of the current century, and was formed on the basis of purchases made by the City of Buenos Aires and gifts. The wide range of exhibits includes works by foreign artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Renoir Dalí, Chagall and Leger as well as works by Argentine artists such as Pettoruti, Del Prete, Forner Seoane, Berni and Badii, amongst others. The Museum also has a library specialised in the contemporary plastic art.