San Roque Museum

Alsina 340
Tel. 4331-0625 (belongs to the Basilica of San Francisco)

The San Roque Museum Association, adjacent to the San Francisco Convent, was set up in order to preserve and catalogue images, paintings, pieces of furniture, and sundry objects used for religious purposes in the past.
Exhibits include 18th and 19th century imagery, furniture, paintings and pieces of Spanish, Portuguese and American art, particularly from the Río de la Plata area.
Amongst the most outstanding exhibits, the following deserve special mention: an image of the Virgin in polychrome carved wood, dressed in embroidered silk and a silver crown (Upper Peru, 18th century); a Christ of Humility and Patience, in carved wood (Franciscan Missions, Province of Corrientes, 18th century); Madonnas, 19th century oil painting on copper; a wounded Christ; works from the Cuzco School from the 18th and 19th centuries; candelabra, paintings, doors, silverwork altars, image heads and carved angels. There is also a collection of Art Nouveau glazed tiles of English, French and Belgian origin.