"Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken" Cinema Museum

Sarmiento 2573
San Juan and Defensa Streets
Tel. 4952-4598
Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Holidays February

Mrs. Jacinta Sánchez de Ducrós Hicken donated to the municipality of the City of Buenos Aires the cinematographic collection of her deceased husband, Pablo Cristian Ducrós Hicken (1903-1969), a researcher and historian specialized in cinema, as well as painter and essayist. This was the basis of the museum, officially created on October 1, 1971, and currently under the authority of the city's administration. This important donation, and the institution itself progressed during the terms of directors such as Jorge Miguel Couselo, Andrés José Rolando Fustiñana and Guillermo Fernández Jurado, all of them critics, journalists, and researchers. The goal pursued by the Museum may be summarised as the recovery or procurement of the elements that may be found and that make up Argentine cinematographic wealth.
A permanent exhibition offers a panorama of local cinema from 1896 to our times. There are cameras (the first Pathé and Lumiére cameras) on exhibition, film projectors, Moviolas, photographs, scale models, costumes, props, scripts, reviews, paper clippings, posters, programs, sketches, caricatures and large portraits of the forerunners, biographies included. The exhibition includes over 600 fiction sound films; 12,000 cans of "Sucesos Argentinos" (local newsreels) ; 1,500 scripts, approximately 20 silent films; a word archive on magnetophonic tapes, and a specialized library.