The "Isaac Fernández Blanco" Museum of Spanish American Art

Suipacha 1422
Tel. 4327-0272 / 4327-0228

Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Holidays : January

This museum was formed thanks to the donation that Isaac Fernández Blanco made to the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires in 1922.lt houses one of the most important displays of silverwork, furniture, imagery, paintings, porcelain and objects of art in Latin America.
Femández Blanco was strongly attracted to music, and perfected his musical knowledge in France, where he acquired a considerable collection of Guarnerius and Stradivarius violins, in addition to violas and violoncellos. The death of one of his daughters in Paris marked him for life. He returned to Buenos Aires and began to reform his parents´ home on old Victoria Street (at present Hipólito Yrigoyen), adapting it for the exhibition of his collections of Latin American objects of art. He gave the museum his name, and in 1922, when his health began tofail (he died in 1928), he donated his house and collections to the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires.
In 1936, the museum was relocated to its present site, in the stately house that had once belonged to Architect Martín Noel This house, built in neocolonial style, is characteristic of the '20s, and its gardens denote Spanish inspiration.
The museum houses one of the most important collections in America of colonial silver objects from Upper Perú and the Río de la Plata area. Also worthy of mentioning are a collection of paintings from the schools of Cuzco, Upper Perú and Argentina, Jesuitical imagery and imagery from Quito, engravings, carvings, furniture, high combs, porcelain, fans and decorativa arts of the republican period. The exhibits provide an accurate reconstruction of life in Buenos Aires during the 18th and 19th centuries, and are a reminder of the museum´s excepcional benefactor.